Mauricio Miller on Poverty, Social Work, and the Alternative

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🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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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. Miller emphasizes the importance of self-determination and self-respect as keys to helping the poor improve their own lives.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:30.8	Today is April 4th, 2019.
0:35.4	And my guest is author and social entrepreneur, Mauricio Miller, his book, which is the
0:41.4	subject of today's conversation, is The Alternative.
0:45.6	Most of what you believe about poverty is wrong.
0:48.7	Mauricio, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:51.5	Thank you very much, Russ.
0:52.5	I really appreciate being here.
0:54.3	What's wrong with what we believe about poverty?
0:56.1	After some of the mistakes we make when we think about it?
0:59.6	I think one of the biggest things is just how we as people relate to one another, which
1:04.7	is too often when it is a people or a population we don't know, we will defer or default to
1:12.8	a stereotype.
1:14.4	And some people's stereotypes of other people are good, bad, or whatever, but what's interesting
1:21.0	about humanity is that none of us actually fit the stereotype.
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