Poverty and inequality / edited by David B. Grusky and Ravi Kanbur ; essays by Amartya Sen ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grusky, David B.

Kanbur, S. M. Ravi.

Sen, Amartya, 1933-

Series:

Studies in Social Inequality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Equality.

Marginality, Social.

Social classes.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: The conceptual foundations of poverty and inequality measurement / David B. Grusky and Ravi Kanbur

Conceptualizing and measuring poverty / Amartya Sen

Poverty and human functioning : capabilities as fundamental entitlements / Martha C. Nussbaum

From income to endowments : the difficult task of expanding the income poverty paradigm / Franois Bourguignon

Social theory and the concept "underclass" / William J. Wilson

Race, class, and markets : social policy in the 21st century / Douglas S. Massey

Dependency and social debt / Martha A. Fineman.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-180) and index.

ISBN:

0-8047-6759-9

1-4294-1593-2

OCLC:

560123572