Episode
Mauricio Miller on Poverty, Social Work, and the Alternative
EconTalk · May 6, 2019 · 1 h 18 min
Poverty activist, social entrepreneur and author, Mauricio Miller, talks about his book The Alternative with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Miller, a MacArthur genius grant recipient, argues that we have made poverty tolerable when we should be trying to make it more escapable. This is possible, he argues, if we invest in the poor and encourage them to leverage their skills and social networks.…