Contents : 1. Inequality, poverty and well-being / Mark McGillivray -- 2. Population ethics and the value of life / Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson -- 3. A non-welfarist approach to inequality measurement / Alain Chateauneuf and Patrick Moyes -- 4. Relative deprivation, personal income satisfaction and average well-being under different income distributions : an experimental investigation / Christian Seidl, Stefan Traub and Andrea Morone -- 5. Contradictory trends in global income inequality : a tale of two biases / Steve Dowrick and Muhammad Akmal -- 6. The many facets of economic mobility / Gary S. Fields -- 7. Social groups and economic poverty : a problem in measurement / S. Subramanian -- 8. Intersociety literacy comparisons / Satya R. Chakravarty and Amita Majumder -- 9. The human development index adjusted for efficient resource utilization / F. J. Arcelus, Basu Sharma and G. Srinivasan. 10. A framework for incorporating environmental indicators in the measurement of human well-being / Osman Zaim -- 11. Measuring non-economic well-being achievement / Mark McGillivray.
ISBN
9781403987525 1403987521
Language
eng
Field of Research
160899 Sociology not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective
970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
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