Poverty, Social Exclusion and Stochastic Dominance

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-981-1334-31-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 259 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 571 g

Reihe: Themes in Economics

This book honors the memory of Tony Atkinson, who made significant contributions to the rigorous study of income inequality, poverty, and redistribution. These essays presented, covering a span of over 30 years of research and scholarship, have been at the forefront of distributional analysis, and many of them are of prime importance for contemporary developments in the real-valued measurement of poverty and inequality, with particular reference to the concepts of fuzzy poverty assessment, vulnerability, heterogeneity/multidimensionality, unit consistency, sub-group decomposability, and dominance criteria. While all of these articles have been previously published—singly or with co-authorship—in a number of professional journals or distinguished edited volumes, this book is greatly enriched by a substantial introductions by the authors, which place the contributions in context, highlights their inter-connectedness, and relates them to the work of Tony Atkinson and other scholars. This book is of intrinsic value to welfare analysts, as well as being a tribute to a very great scholar by a fellow economist.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakravarty, Satya R.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ethically Flexible Measures Of Poverty.- On Shorrocks' Reinvestigation Of The Sen Poverty Index.- A New Index Of Poverty.- Reference Groups And The Poverty Line: An Axiomatic Approach With An Empirical Illustration.- Poverty And Time.- The Measurement Of Multidimensional Poverty.- A Family Of Unit Consistent Multidimensional Poverty Indices.- An Axiomatic Approach To Multidimensional Poverty Measurement Via Fuzzy Sets.- Multidimensional Poverty Orderings: Theory And Applications.- The Measurement Of Social Exclusion.- Multidimensional Poverty And Material Deprivation With Discrete Data.- Stochastic Dominance Relations For Integer Variables.- Multidimensional Indicators Of Inequality And Poverty.

Über Autor(innen)

Satya R. Chakravarty is a Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Paris School of Economics, Paris, France; Bocconi University, Milan, Italy; Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan; Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan; Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China. His areas of research interest are welfare issues, cooperative game theory, industrial organization, and mathematical finance. He has publications in leading Theoretical and Applied journals such as Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Econometrica, Economic Theory, Journal of Development Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, International Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Mathematical Social Sciences, Theory and Decision, Economics Letters, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Economic Inequality, Health Economics, and Review of Income and Wealth as well as in books by leading publishers. He has published books with several leading publishers in varied areas encompassing Welfare issues, Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Mathematical Finance and Microeconomics. He currently serves on editorial boards of Social Choice and Welfare, Journal of Economic Inequality and Review of Income and Wealth. He worked as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank; as an advisor to the National Council of Social Policy Evaluation, Mexico; and has been associated in various capacities with the World Bank, the UN Environment Program and the UNDP. He was awarded the Mahalanobis memorial prize by the Indian Econometric Society in 1994 and is a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association.