Inequality, Polarization and Conflict An Analytical Study /

• Main Author: Chakravarty, Satya R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being, 12
• Subjects: Economic theory.; Economic policy.; Social policy.; Labor economics.; Development economics.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Social Policy.; Economic Policy.; Labor Economics.

This monograph initially offers a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of alternative notions of income polarization and related issues. It then goes on to analyze social polarization, ordinal polarization, and the relations between inequality polarization, fractionalization and likeli...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Measuring Inequality
• Chapter 2. On the Measurement of Income Bipolarization
• Chapter 3. Measurement of Income Multi-Polar Polarization
• Chapter 4. Reduced -Form Indices of Income Polarization
• Chapter 5. Social Polarization
• Chapter 6. Measurement of Polarization for a Dimension of Human Well-being with Ordinal Significance.- Chapter 7. Fractionalization, Polarization and Conflict.