Poverty and inequality
By: edited by David B. Grusky and Ravi Kanbur ; essays by Amartya Sen ... [et al.].
Contributors: Grusky, David B.; Kanbur, S. M. Ravi.; Sen, Amartya Kumar.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Poverty; Equality; Marginality, Social; Social classes; Social policy
Description: This volume brings together leading public intellectuals Amartya Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum, François Bourguignon, William J. Wilson, Douglas S. Massey, and Martha A. Fineman to take stock of current analytic understandings of poverty and inequality. Contemporary research on inequality has largely relied on conceptual advances several decades old, even though the basic structure of global inequality is changing in fundamental ways. The reliance on conventional poverty indices, rights-based approaches to poverty reduction, and traditional modeling of social mobility has left scholars and policymakers poorly equipped to address modern challenges. The contributors show how contemporary poverty is forged in neighborhoods, argue that discrimination in housing markets is a profound source of poverty, suggest that gender inequalities in the family and in the social evaluation of the caretaking role remain a hidden dimension of inequality, and develop the argument that contemporary inequality is best understood as an inequality in fundamental human capabilities. This book demonstrates in manifold ways how contemporary scholarship and policy must be recast to make sense of new and emerging forms of poverty and social exclusion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The conceptual foundations of poverty and inequality measurement / David B. Grusky and Ravi Kanbur; title: Conceptualizing and measuring poverty / Amartya Sen; title: Poverty and human functioning : capabilities as fundamental entitlements / Martha C. Nussbaum; title: From income to endowments : the difficult task of expanding the income poverty paradigm / Franois Bourguignon; title: Social theory and the concept "underclass" / William J. Wilson; title: Race, class, and markets : social policy in the 21st century / Douglas S. Massey; title: Dependency and social debt / Martha A. Fineman.