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Antonio Villar - Lectures on Inequality, Poverty and Welfare - 9783319455617 - V9783319455617
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Lectures on Inequality, Poverty and Welfare

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Description for Lectures on Inequality, Poverty and Welfare Paperback. Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Num Pages: 171 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JPQB; KCA; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 291.

These lectures aim to help readers understand the logics and nature of the main indicators of inequality and poverty, with special attention to their social welfare underpinnings. The key approach consists in linking inequality and poverty measurement with welfare evaluation. As concern for inequality and poverty stems from ethical considerations, the measurement of those aspects necessarily involves some value judgments. Those value judgments can be linked, directly or indirectly, to welfare assessments on the distribution of personal and social opportunities. Inequality and poverty are thus considered to be partial aspects of the welfare evaluation of the opportunities in a given ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
Series
Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
Number of Pages
171
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319455617
SKU
V9783319455617
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Antonio Villar
Antonio Villar is Professor of Economics at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville), where he arrived in 2005 from the University of Alicante. He is also Senior Researcher at the Ivie (Valencian Institute for Economic Research). He got a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in 1990, after a B.A. in Economics (University of Valencia, 1978) ... Read more

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