Reducing Poverty in America: Views and Approaches [Paperback]

Michael R. Darby (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 21, 1995

This challenging volume reflects the breadth of the debate over the existence of poverty in the United States and what can be done to eradicate it. With contributions from 21 distinguished social scientists and policy analysts, the book represents the diversity of ideas on how to effectively reduce the social ills of poverty, welfare dependency and the `underclass'. Four areas of focus in anti-poverty efforts are examined in depth: education, community empowerment, job training and social intervention.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc (November 21, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761900071
• ISBN-13: 978-0761900078
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,426,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael R. Darby currently serves as the Warren C. Cordner Distinguished Professor of Money and Financial Markets in the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management and in the Departments of Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, and as Director of the John M. Olin Center for Policy in the Anderson School. Concurrently, he holds appointments as Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology, and Associate Director of the UCLA School of Public Affairs's Center for International Science, Technology, and Cultural Policy.
From July 1986 through January 1992, Dr. Darby served in a number of senior positions in the Reagan and Bush administrations including Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (1986-89), Member of the National Commission on Superconductivity (1988-89), Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs (1989-92), and Administrator of the Economics and Statistics Administration (1990-92). Dr. Darby has received many honors including the Alexander Hamilton Award, the Treasury's highest honor, in 1989.
Michael Darby's research ranges over the fields of macroeconomics; international finance; science, technology, and productivity; and industrial organization. His discoveries include the "Darby effect" of income taxation on the interest-rate inflation premium, credence goods, and 3½ million uncounted employees during the Depression. Darby is the widely-cited author of eleven books and monographs and over one hundred other professional publications. He was Editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance (1980-1986) and continues to serve on the editorial board of that and numerous other journals. Darby was President of the Western Economic Association International during 2000-2001.
Professor Darby received his A.B. summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1967 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1968 and 1970. He spent two years as an assistant professor of economics at the Ohio State University before moving to the UCLA Economics Department in 1972. He became an associate professor in 1973 and professor in 1978.