Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous, Politics & Government - General & Miscellaneous, Social Problems, Macroeconomics
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Overview
The subject of this book is income distribution based social index numbers. These index numbers quantify different aspects of income distribution data. The topics covered are: inequality, economic distance, relative de- privation, poverty, tax progressivity, horizontal inequity and mobility. The main purpose of the book is to present the significant results on welfare theoretic ap- proaches to income distribution based measurement problems. Discussions of descriptive approaches, which do not make use of a concept of social welfare, are also included. Thus the book gives an overall view of the recent developments in this subject. The technical terms and mathematical operations employed to discuss the results are explained in nontechnical terms, and intuitive explanation of the mathematical results are given. Numerical illustrations of some of the results are provided using income distribution data.Book Details
Published
June 1, 1990
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Pages
309
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780387522746