Poverty and inequality
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press ,
2006
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The conceptual foundations of poverty and inequality measurement / David B. Grusky and Ravi Kanbur
- Conceptualizing and measuring poverty / Amartya Sen
- Poverty and human functioning : capabilities as fundamental entitlements / Martha C. Nussbaum
- From income to endowments : the difficult task of expanding the income poverty paradigm / Franois Bourguignon
- Social theory and the concept "underclass" / William J. Wilson
- Race, class, and markets : social policy in the 21st century / Douglas S. Massey
- Dependency and social debt / Martha A. Fineman