Thinking about Inequality: Personal Judgment and Income Distributions

by Yoram Amiel, Frank A. Cowell, Frank Cowell

What is inequality? In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the subject that has yielded a substantial body of formal tools and results for income-distribution analysis. But does the standard axiomatic structure coincide with public perceptions of inequality? Or is the economist's concept of inequality a thing apart, perpetuated through serial brainwashing in the way the subject is studied and taught? Amiel and Cowell examine the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521466962
• ISBN13: 9780521466967
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"