Welcome attention was drawn to the issue of poverty with the 2014 publication of Thomas Piketty鈥檚 Capital in the Twenty-first Century, which became an international bestseller.
The Political Economy of Inequality by Frank Stilwell, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, gives a more rounded overview of the issue in a more manageable volume than Piketty鈥檚 hefty magnum opus.