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Lord Bird co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Future Generations and Libraries, and is vice-chairman of the Groups on Poverty, Ending Homelessness and Social Enterprise. He also leads debates on poverty, literacy and social business, and is a member of the Lord Speaker 's Advisory Panel on Works of Art.
Christopher Leonard (born c. 1975) is an American investigative journalist.He has written three books, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business, [1] the New York Times best-selling Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, [2] and The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy.
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World is a nonfiction book by Liaquat Ahamed about events leading up to and culminating in the Great Depression as told through the personal histories of the heads of the Central Banks of the world's four major economies at the time: Benjamin Strong Jr. of the New York Federal Reserve, Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Émile Moreau of the ...
Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, CH (7 July 1871 – 7 October 1954) was an English sociological researcher, social reformer and industrialist.He is known in particular for his three studies of poverty in York, conducted in 1899, 1935, and 1951.
Poverty, by America is a 2023 non-fiction book by Matthew Desmond, a sociology professor. Published by Crown Publishing Group , it was released on March 21, 2023. Overview
Poverty, A Study of Town Life is the first book by Seebohm Rowntree, a sociological researcher, social reformer and industrialist, published in 1901.The study, widely considered a seminal work of sociology, details Rowntree's investigation of poverty in York, England and the subsequent implications that arise from the findings, in regard to the nature of poverty at the start of the twentieth ...
The book speaks of abolishing vice and poverty by establishing homes for the homeless, farm communities such as Hadleigh Farm where the urban poor can be trained in agriculture, training centres for prospective emigrants, homes for fallen women and released prisoners, aid for the poor, and help for drunkards. He also lays down schemes for poor ...
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) is a non-fiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee [1] and Esther Duflo, [2] both professors of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureates.