TY - JOUR AU - Acevedo, Rafael Alexis AU - Cirocco, Luis H AU - D'Andrea, Fernando Antonio Monteiro Christoph PY - 2018/10/18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Multipoverty in Venezuela: A Libertarian Approach JF - MISES: Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Law and Economics JA - MisesJournal VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - Special Issue 2018 DO - 10.30800/mises.2018.v0.949 UR - https://revistamises.org.br/misesjournal/article/view/949 SP - AB - <p class="western" align="justify"><span style="color: #3d3d3d;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Poverty has been defined by several authors and international organizations from similar perspectives. However, those definitions tend to be simplistic and not powerful enough to deal with complex situations that involve different points of view on the poverty phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to use a praxeological standpoint and introduce a new definition, multipoverty, while using it to analyze the current crisis in Venezuela. Three main conclusions are drawn: in current Venezuela, all common people are very likely to be poor, and a social explosion there is possible; the nature of the human being is too complex to be analyzed under a simplistic approach based on the rigidness of pure quantitative methods; the multipoverty approach adds a humanistic, praxeological, and individualistic edge, based upon ideas of freedom of action, to the traditional definitions of poverty and helps to better understand the phenomena.</span></span></span></span></p> ER -