Measuring inequality
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Measuring inequality
(LSE handbooks in economics series)
Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995
2nd ed
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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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