Deprivation, Inequality and Polarization Essays in Honour of Satya Ranjan Chakravarty /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dasgupta, Indraneel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mitra, Manipushpak (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being,
• Subjects: Social policy.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Economic policy.; Development economics.; Social Policy.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Development Policy.; Development Economics.

This book offers a collection of original, state-of-the-art essays addressing various aspects of the economic analysis of inequality, deprivation, poverty measurement and social polarization, at both the theoretical and empirical level. Written by leading authorities in the fields of distributional...

Table of Contents:

• Measuring Multi-dimensional Well-being and Deprivation with Discrete Ordinal Data
• Feasible Shared Destiny Risk Distributions
• Fuzzy Inequality Ranking Relations and their Crisp Approximations
• On pro-middle Class Growth
• Inequalities and Identities
• A Generalization of the Theil Measure of Inequality
• Correlation and Inequality in Weighted Majority Voting Games
• Reduced form Polarization Index: Alternative Formulations and Extensions.