Thinking about Inequality : Personal Judgment and Income Distributions.
This book offers a non-technical analysis of inequality and income distribution. It considers the way that broad ideas about the meaning of inequality are translated into specific statistical tools and with the appropriateness of the assumptions used in the literature.
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Cambridge University Press,
1999
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 What is inequality? The economists view; 3 An investigative strategy; 4 What is inequality? The students view; 5 Income and welfare; 6 Income change; 7 Poverty; 8 A cross-cultural perspective; 9 Thinking again about inequality; Appendix A Inequality analysis: a summary of concepts and results; Appendix B The questionnaires; References; Index.
