Poverty

Luigino Bruni ()

A chapter in A Lexicon of Social Well-Being, 2015, pp 96-99 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Poverty is an essential dimension of the human condition; it is one of the primary words in everyone’s life. A major flaw in our civilization is to consider poverty a problem that is typical only of some social groups or peoples, those who time and again are the “monopolists” of poverty. So we would like to immunize ourselves more and more against the poor, expelling them like scapegoats to remain outside the boundaries of our civil society. We do not know poverty anymore and we do not recognize it, because we have forgotten that we are born into absolute poverty, and that we will end our lives in no less absolute poverty.

Keywords: Civil Society; Primary Word; Relational Capital; Absolute Poverty; Southern Hemi (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889_26

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