Bibliography

General Resources

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• Conley, Dalton, ed. Wealth and Poverty in America: A Reader. Malden: Blackwell, 2002.
• Geremek, Bronislaw. Poverty: A History. Malden: Blackwell, 1994.
• Heilbroner, Robert. The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers. Rev. 7th ed. New York: Simon & Schuster-Touchstone, 1999.

Web

• The History of Economic Thought Website, presented by the New School for Social Research.
• The Library of Economics and Liberty.
• Data on poverty from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Mo Tzu: Against Music

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• Lowe, Scott. Mo Tzu's Religious Blueprint for a Chinese Utopia: The Will and the Way. Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
• Watson, Burton, trans. Mo Tzu: Basic Writings. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.

 Web

• Part of a learning module on Mo Tzu in the context of Chinese philosophy.
• The full text of the Mo Tzu in Chinese and English.
• A brief, illustrated guide to ancient Chinese music.

 New Testament: Luke, Chapter 16

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• Blomberg, Craig L. Neither Poverty Nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Possessions. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2001.
• Hoppe, Leslie. There Shall Be No Poor among You: Poverty in the Bible. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2004.

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• An introduction to the Gospel of Luke from the PBS series Frontline’s special “From Jesus to Christ.”
• The Catholic Encyclopedia entry for parables.
• A detailed scholarly interpretation of the parable of the unjust steward.

(IMAGE) William Hogarth:  Gin Lane

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• Shesgreen, Sean. Engravings of Hogarth. New York: Dover, 1973.
• Uglow, Jenny. Hogarth: A Life and a World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.  

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• A large selection of Hogarth engravings from the collection at the University of Wales.
• A page devoted to the Hogarth exhibit at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.
• Entries on Beer Street and Gin Lane at The Literary Encyclopedia.

 

(IMAGE) Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother

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• Spirn, Anne Whiston. Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
• Meltzer, Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1978.

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• Oakland Museum of California’s Dorothea Lange collection.
• Library of Congress archive of Farm Security Administration photographs, including Lange’s.

 

Thomas Malthus: from An Essay on the Principle of Population

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• Coleman, David, and Roger Schofield. The State of Population Theory: Forward from Malthus. New York: Blackwell, 1988.
• Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population. Ed. Geoffrey Gilbert. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Web

• The full text of An Essay on the Principle of Population.
• An online biography of Malthus with many links to other resources.
• The home page of the International Society of Malthus.

Mohandas K. Gandhi: Economic and Moral Progress

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• Duncan, Alastair. Gandhi: Selected Writings. New York: Dover, 2005.
• Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand. Gandhi: An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Boston: Beacon, 1993.

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• A huge archive of research-grade materials on Gandhi.
• An audio library of speeches and other works by and about Gandhi.
• An essay on Gandhi and Hinduism.

Octavio Paz: from The Day of the Dead

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• Paz, Octavio. The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre. New York: Grove, 1985.
• Quiroga, Jose.Understanding Octavio Paz. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.

Web

• A site devoted to the history and traditions of Mexico’s Day of the Dead.
• The Nobel Foundation’s page on Octavio Paz, who won the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Lucy Lameck: Africans Are Not Poor

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• Killick, Tony, and Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa. African Poverty at the Millennium: Causes, Complexities, and Challenges. World Bank Publications, 2001.
• Lihamba, Amandina , Fulata L. Moyo, Mugaybuso M. Mulokozi, and Naomi L. Shitemi, eds. Women Writing Africa: Vol. 3, The Eastern Region. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2007.

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• CIA World Fact Book entry for Tanzania.
• World Bank report on poverty in Africa.

Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor

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• Elrich, Paul. The Population Bomb. New York: Ballantine, 1971.
• Hardin, Garrett. The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Web

• The Garrett Hardin Society home page.
• The full text of Hardin’s classic essay “The Tragedy of the Commons.”
• A special issue of Science devoted to Hardin’s work.

Muhammad Yunus: The Stool Makers of Jobra Village

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• Bornstein, David. The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Sachs, Jeffrey. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. New York: Penguin, 2005.
• Yunus, Muhammad. Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. New York: Public Affairs, 2003.

Web

• Official Grameen Bank webSite
• A collection of video lectures by Dr. Muhammad Yunus.