2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Italian founder of the Franciscan Order who embraced radical poverty, preached to birds, and received the stigmata — the first person in Christian history recorded as receiving the wounds of Christ in his own flesh — and who is the most beloved saint in Catholic history.
Bryan Caplan's analysis of the causes of poverty — arguing that individual behavior plays a larger role than structural factors, and that most anti-poverty programs fail because they don't address behavioral causes.