Ecos de Economía
ISSN 1657-4206
ISIDRO LUNA, Víctor Manuel. Poverty in Capitalism. Why is it Persisting Today?. []. , 17, 37, pp.83-107. ISSN 1657-4206.
The purpose of this paper is to provide elements to reflect on the way poverty is nowadays conceptualized and on its causing factors. This paper discusses that a classic-neoclassical frame of reference cannot explain the persistence or increase of poverty in today's developed countries. This article suggests that through a Marxist historic-descriptive and theoretical-logical method it may be possible to gain understanding about poverty in capitalism and its current evolution.
: Poverty; the United States; Europe; classic; neoclassic; Marx.