Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy: Volume I: Concepts and Analysis

✍ Scribed by Kaushik Basu, Joseph E. Stiglitz (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 286
Series: International Economic Association Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

It was part of common wisdom that in the early stages of development inequality would rise, but it would, eventually, decline. As time passed and growth persisted inequality has, however, continued to grow, casting doubt on the received wisdom.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals....Pages 1-71
Reflections on the “Equity and Development” World Development Report Ten Years Later....Pages 72-100
Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty....Pages 101-130
How Useful Is Inequality of Opportunity as a Policy Construct?....Pages 131-150
Toward a New Definition of Shared Prosperity: A Dynamic Perspective from Three Countries....Pages 151-171
Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion: Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice?....Pages 172-200
The Effects of Fiscal Redistribution....Pages 201-224
Inequality of Happiness: Evidence of the Compression of the Subjective-Wellbeing Distribution with Economic Growth....Pages 225-249
Back Matter....Pages 250-256

✦ Subjects

Development Economics;Regional/Spatial Science;Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics;Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice

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