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Endogeneity/Reflexivity/Circularity/Self-prophesising

We affect our circumstances more than we appreciate. Women do it in their affection for men, speculators affect market fundamentals (no shit!) and name callers affect those who they call names, as well as themselves, act…
Poverty as a social construct & colonialism's effect

I keep returning to the definition of poverty. Except in cases where absolute poverty is universally recognised, the definition of poverty can also be looked at in terms of how one perceives one's ability to change one…