Bruce Meyer on Poverty

EconTalk

Library of Economics and Liberty

Ethics, Philosophy, Economics, Books, Science, Business, Courses, Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Interviews, Education, History

4.7 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Economist Bruce Meyer of the University of Chicago talks about poverty with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. In recent years, a number of scholars have claimed that millions of Americans live in extreme poverty, akin to the standard of living in the poorest countries around the world. Meyer argues that these studies are based on flawed surveys or particular assumptions that may not be justified. The conversation also addresses broader challenges around measuring mobility and the American Dream.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links and other
0:19.0	information related to today's conversation.
0:21.0	You'll also find our archives, with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:29.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:36.8	Today is April 20, 2021, and my guest is economist Bruce Meyer, the McCormick Foundation
0:42.1	professor of public policy at the Harris School at the University of Chicago.
0:47.1	He was last here on econtalk talking about the middle class poverty and inequality in October
0:52.6	2011.
0:53.6	I want to thank Planned Tronics for providing today's guest with the Blackwire 5220 headset.
0:59.6	Bruce, welcome back to econtalk.
1:01.6	Pleasure to be here.
1:03.8	Our subject for today is poverty, and in particular we're going to start off talking about what
1:07.6	is sometimes called extreme poverty.
1:09.6	Drawing on a recent paper you've written with Derek Wu, Victoria Moores, and Carla Medallion,
1:14.3	the Journal of Labor Economics, title of that paper is the use and misuse of income data
1:19.6	and extreme poverty in the United States.
1:23.5	Extreme poverty is usually defined as what?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Library of Economics and Liberty, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Library of Economics and Liberty and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.