00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002507 20200508201907 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 0195647343 010-0520002507 eng 338.954 1 338.954 1/FOS/O James A. Foster On Economic Inequality Cet. 6 New Delhi United Nations Department 2002 xii,219p.;21 cm 21 cm Indeks : Indeks bibliografi This seminal work, first published in 1973, presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measuremant of economic inequality. alternative approaches are evaluated in terms of their philosophical assumtions, economic content, and statiscal requirements. In a new annexe, recent developments in this area and their bearing on the evaluation and measurement of inequality and proverty are examined. Some of the analitycal issues partially examined in the original edition are more rigorously treated and many policyrelated contemporari issues identified and succesfully investigated. This book lays down the basic concepts in non-technical terms, and offers intuitive explanations for mathematical results, making it more accessible to the general reader. Ekonomi