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Inequality and poverty a short critical introduction /
This book provides an entry into the subjects of disparity and deprivation, by attending to issues that have a bearing on certain salient philosophical and conceptual aspects of these subjects. The student doing a graduate course in the measurement of inequality and poverty is all too often plunged...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Gateway East, Singapore :
Springer,
[2019]
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Series: | SpringerBriefs in economics.
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1 online resource. |
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Online Access: | SpringerLink - Click here for access |
Contents:
- Chapter 1: The Intrinsic Bane of Inequality
- Chapter 2: The Instrumental Harms of Inequality
- Chapter 3: Distributive Justice and Utilitarianism
- Chapter 4: Distributive Justice and Welfare Economics
- Chapter 5: More on Distributive Justice and Welfare Economics
- Chapter 6: On the Conflict between Equity and Efficiency
- Chapter 7: Equality, Efficiency, and 'Levelling Down
- Chapter 8: Equality and Liberty
- Chapter 9: Inter-Personal versus Inter-Group Inequality
- Chapter 10: The Measurement of Economic Inequality
- Chapter 11: Economic Inequality in India and the World
- Chapter 12: The Language of the Poverty Line
- Chapter 13: The Logic of the Poverty Line
- Chapter 14: Indias Official Poverty Lines
- Chapter 15: Poverty Comparisons across Populations of Different Sizes
- Chapter 16: Targeting Assistance to the Poor
- Chapter 17: Do we have an Obligation to Assist the Distant Needy?
- Chapter 18: Poverty and Inclusive Growth in the Light of the Quintile Income Statistic
- Chapter 19: Deprivation in the Midst of Affluence
- Chapter 20: Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in India: Pulling the Threads Together.