Download or read book A Theory of Poverty and Social Exclusion written by Bill Jordan and published by Polity. This book was released on 1996-08-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Jordan seeks to fill a gap in social scientific theory by accounting for why a deterioration in the living standards of the worst-off members of societies tends to coincide with the resurgence of free-market utopianism as a political creed.