Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist, the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
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Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountPulitzer Prize-winning sociologist and principal investigator of the Eviction Lab, whose research reframed mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash as a cause of poverty rather than only a consequence of it. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016) 1 Connections
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Desmond Poverty, by America argued that the shape of the American welfare state, including its hidden subsidies to the well off, actively sustains poverty.
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Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist.
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showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty
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for his work about poverty, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
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