2015 MacArthur 'Genius' award winner Matthew Desmond is an associate professor of sociology and social science at Harvard University and co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project. He is the author of the award-winning book On The...

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

'Essential and instructive, hopeful and enraging' Ann Patchett'Desmond is utterly convincing: we must all become poverty abolitionists' Emily Kenway*A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of...

Pulitzer-Preisträger für das beste Sachbuch 2017 – eine erzählerische Studie des modernen urbanen Amerika, anhand des Themas Wohnen wird ein neues Bild von Armut und Ungleichheit gezeichnet. Matthew Desmond nimmt den Leser mit in die...