Episode · EconTalk · 2021-04-19
Russ Roberts & Mark Rank: books mentioned on EconTalk
Mark Rank on Poverty and Poorly Understood
Sociologist and author Mark Rank talks about his book, Poorly Understood, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rank looks at a wide variety of aspects of poverty.
Russ Roberts discussed Poorly Understood by Mark Robert Rank and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Poorly Understood
Discussed“he is the author of poorly understood what america gets wrong about poverty co-authored with lawrence eppert and heather bullock and that book is our topic for today”
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Plugged Poorly Understood
“so the way that we um talk about poverty in the book for the most part is the way that the um the census bureau defines poverty”
Plugged Poorly Understood
“on one hand um we can say which which i have said in the book and my co-authors that you know there's something wrong here when you have so many people experiencing at least one year in poverty or near poverty on the other hand and i've talked to many groups and and people will raise this issue”
Plugged Poorly Understood
“the analogy that i use um in the book is the one in musical chairs which is to say okay let's imagine we have a game of musical chairs where there are ten players playing and eight chairs available circle around music stops”
Plugged Poorly Understood
“my guest today has been mark rang his book is poorly understood”