Umfang:
1 online resource (197 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780521461313
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9780511152313
Inhalt:
This 1999 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
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 A look at inequality analysis -- 1.2 A second look -- 1.3 A guide to the book -- Notes -- 2 What is inequality? The economists' view -- 2.1 The axiomatic approach -- 2.2 Inequality rankings and orderings -- 2.3 The transfer principle -- 2.4 Income and population -- 2.5 Decomposability -- 2.6 Summary -- Notes -- 3 An investigative strategy -- 3.1 What are we investigating? -- 3.2 Experiments -- Theoretical base -- Rules of the game -- Control -- 3.3 Questions -- The 'framing' problem -- Misrepresentation -- Imprecision -- 3.4 A new approach -- 3.5 Implementing the approach -- Our students -- Format of questionnaires -- Translation of questionnaires -- 3.6 Summary -- Notes -- 4 What is inequality? The students' view -- 4.1 Drawing an inequality map -- 4.2 An introduction to the questionnaires -- 4.3 Inequality and changes in income and population -- 4.4 Transfers and the structure of inequality comparisons -- 4.5 Do the answers make sense? -- 4.6 More on the transfer principle -- Notes -- 5 Income and welfare -- 5.1 What is welfare? -- 5.2 Social welfare -- Anonymity -- Monotonicity, dominance and the Pareto principle -- Relationship to inequality -- 5.3 Empirical results -- Anonymity -- The transfer principle -- Principle of population -- Decomposability -- Additions to incomes -- 5.4 Summary: welfare judgments and inequality comparisons -- Notes -- 6 Income change -- 6.1 Introduction: comparing cakes -- 6.2 Uniform enrichment -- 6.3 The dependence hypothesis -- 6.4 Unbalanced enrichment -- 6.5 Policy appraisal -- Fairness, comparability and income levels -- Inequality and growth -- Notes -- 7 Poverty -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 What does 'poverty' mean? -- Partitioning the population -- Identifying the poor
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Using information about the distribution -- 7.3 The poverty questionnaires -- 7.4 Income distributions and poverty -- Monotonicity -- The transfer principle -- Anonymity -- Population replication -- Population decomposability -- The focus axiom -- New population members -- Poverty perceptions and the poverty line -- What happens if basic needs increase? -- What happens if basic needs and incomes increase? -- The definition of the poverty line -- 7.5 Conclusions: the approach to poverty comparisons -- Notes -- 8 A cross-cultural perspective -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 A statistical approach -- 8.3 Principles of distributional judgments -- The transfer principle -- Monotonicity -- The poverty line -- 8.4 Direct and indirect approaches to inequality -- 8.5 Does economics matter? -- 8.6 An appraisal -- Notes -- 9 Thinking again about inequality -- 9.1 Second thoughts about second thoughts -- 9.2 Applying inequality judgments -- 9.3 Where next? -- 9.4 A final word -- Notes -- Appendix A Inequality analysis: a summary of concepts and results -- A.1 The axiomatic approach -- A.2 Inequality and welfare rankings -- A.3 Poverty comparisons -- Notes -- Appendix B The questionnaires -- A1 INCOME INEQUALITY QUESTIONNAIRE -- A2 INCOME INEQUALITY QUESTIONNAIRE -- A3 INCOME INEQUALITY QUESTIONNAIRE -- A4 INCOME INEQUALITY QUESTIONNAIRE -- B1 INCOME DISTRIBUTION QUESTIONNAIRE -- B2 INCOME DISTRIBUTION QUESTIONNAIRE -- P1 Poverty Questionnaire -- P2 Poverty Questionnaire -- R3 INCOME RISK QUESTIONNAIRE -- References -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Amiel, Yoram Thinking about Inequality Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c1999 ISBN 9780521461313
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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