Tag: Charles Karelis
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Why Are So Many Low-Income People So Overweight? (It’s Not Food Deserts.)
Pacific Standard: Why Are So Many Low-Income People So Overweight? … More recently, in Slate, Heather Tirado Gilligan cites peer-reviewed research to conclude: "[M]ore fresh food closer to home likely does nothing for folks at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Obesity levels don't drop when low-income city neighborhoods have or get grocery stores."… ……
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On Poverty and Hope
From Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. The bigger point is that a little bit of hope and some reassurance and comfort can be a powerful incentive. It is easy for those of us who have enough, living a secure life, structured…
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An Economic Fallacy Economists Believe About the Poor?
I recently finished reading a short but fascinating book by Charles Karelis called The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor. Karelis is a professor of research philosophy at George Washington University and a past president of Colgate University. His topic is essentially about marginal utility and the poor.…