FQ.08.17: Favorite Quote for This Week

To seek the causes of poverty... is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. The great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development. It can be overcome only if the relevant economic processes are in motion.
—Jane Jacobs

Comments

[William]

Not the absence of economic development; rather, relatively less intense economic development when viewed from a place of relatively more intense economic development.

[Fredex]

Poverrty is like cold. There is no source for cold; Cold is the absence of heat.

[DanJ]

Too bad we don't hear politicians talk like this.

Instead of a war of poverty, how about a "war on things that stifle economic growth"?

That would be change.