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About Matthew Desmond
American sociologist
Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and professor at Princeton University. He is known for his work on housing, poverty, and inequality, and for leading the Eviction Lab there. At Princeton, he serves as the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and as principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
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Reflections: more sayings
- “And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.”Ed Bradley
- “I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'”Joshua Oppenheimer
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Books by Matthew Desmond
Evicted
2017
Race in America
2016