Books: Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass

Women in Poverty: A New Global Underclass

Understanding the Determinants of Poverty

Regression analysis is commonly undertaken to identify the effects of each of these characteristics on income (or expenditure) per capita. Attention is needed to choose the independent variables carefully, to be sure that they are indeed exogenous. A number of more exotic techniques are now available for this purpose, including classification and regression tree (CART) models and multiple-adapt...

Understanding Instruction Books and Programs

This paper takes the form of a dialog between two ‘super-observers’ SO1 and SO2 discussing a modified Chinese Room experiment to conduct an examination of seldom-discussed artefacts, the instruction manual and/or the computer program in the room. SO2 – So what’s all this about? SO1 – This is an experiment to measure whether or not it is possible to build an ‘artificial intelligence’. What do yo...

A contextual definition of the underclass

Assessing whether or not an underclass exists, how it came to be, and what policies are likely to affect it all turn on how the term "underclass" is defined. The underclass has been variously defined by any or all of four characteristics: chronic poverty; nonnormative behavior with respect to income generation and family formation; spatial concentration of such poverty and/or behavior; and inte...

Commentary: Understanding the pathophysiology of poverty.

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