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Inequality and Poverty - A Short Critical Introduction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Inequality and Poverty - A Short Critical Introduction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Economics
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This book provides an entry into the subjects of disparity and
deprivation, by attending to issues that have a bearing on certain
salient philosophical and conceptual aspects of these subjects. The
student doing a graduate course in the measurement of inequality
and poverty is all too often plunged directly into the complexities
of Schur-convex functions, dominance conditions, partial orders and
the axiomatics of characterization theorems. Inequality and poverty
as phenomena with profound social and moral implications for the
world we live in tend to get submerged in a treatment of the
subject that is more suggestive of applied mathematics than of the
material conditions of life. This is in no way to deny that
measurement must deal uncompromisingly with measurement, and
therefore with the protocols of formal logic and technical rigour.
Having said this, it seems fair to suggest that one's appreciation
of the formalities - as well as of the limitations and ambiguities
- of measurement is only aided by a relatively gentle introduction
to the subject. This would call for a prior, or accompanying,
engagement with the underlying concepts, the philosophical bases,
the political salience, the normative values, and the critical
facts of the subjects under investigation. It is this necessary
background that is emphasized in this book, which is a collection
of articles published earlier in the popular press, and intended
for consumption by any curious general reader or student with a
taste for critical enquiry. The contents of the book will be useful
as much for the aspiring scholar as for the interested lay reader
looking for a gateway into the subject.
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