Measuring inequality

Author(s)

• Cowell, Frank A. (Frank Alan)

Bibliographic Information

Measuring inequality

Frank A. Cowell

（LSE handbooks in economics series）

Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995

2nd ed

Note

Disk in pocket inside backcover

Bibliography: p. 177-190

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Fully revised and updated, this textbook provides a short and accessible introduction to the concept of economic inequality and how inequality can be modelled and measured. This edition is very much a "How to..." book relating to the measurement of inequality. It covers major new results about inequality rankings and inequality decomposition. A more technically oriented Appendix covers standard properties of inequality measures, provides properties of the most important functional forms, and summarizes the interrelationships amongst the key inequality measures. A data disk enclosed with the book includes key data sets on inequality and distribution. This text is intended for single and joint-honours economics students on the quantitative part of courses in Welfare Economics, Development Economics, Labour Economics and Public Sector Economics.

Table of Contents

First Principles. Charting Inequality. Analysing Inequality. Important Special Cases. From Theory to Practice. Appendix.

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Details

• NCID: BA25543815
• ISBN:
  • 0134343662
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 194 p.
• Size: 24 cm.
• Attached Material: 1 disk
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Income distribution
  • LCSH : Poverty
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA2024417X