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Inequality, Polarization and Poverty

Advances in Distributional Analysis

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

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Inequality, Polarization and Poverty

Advances in Distributional Analysis

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

This book provides a synthesis of some recent issues and an up-to-date treatment of some of the major important issues in distributional analysis that I have covered in my previous book Ethical Social Index Numbers, which was widely accepted by students, teachers, researchers and practitioners in the area. Wide coverage of on-going and advanced topics and their analytical, articulate and authoritative p- sentation make the book theoretically and methodologically quite contemporary and inclusive, and highly responsive to the practical problems of recent concern. Since many countries of the world are still characterized by high levels of income inequality, Chap. 1 analyzes the problems of income inequality measurement in detail. Poverty alleviation is an overriding goal of development and social policy. To formulate antipoverty policies, research on poverty has mostly focused on inco- based indices. In view of this, a substantive analysis of income-based poverty has been presented in Chap. 2. The subject of Chap. 3 is people’s perception about income inequality in terms of deprivation. Since polarization is of current concern to analysts and social decisi- makers, a discussion on polarization is presented in Chap. 4.

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Ethical Social Index Numbers

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

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Ethical Social Index Numbers

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

In this book we are concerned with income profile based ethical social index numbers. An ethical index is designed from an explicit social evaluation function with a specific purpose in mind. For example, an ethical relative inequality index determines the fraction of total income that could be saved without any welfare loss if society distri buted incomes equally. Ethical indices contrast with descriptive indices which are de rived without using any concept of social welfare. Needless to say, ethical indices are not meant to supplant descriptive indices, rather they are constructed with different aims. We begin Chapter 1 with a formal discussion on the concept of a social evaluation function. In the main body of this chapter we consider the problem of ranking income profiles using a social evaluation function. In Chapter 2 we set about analyzing alter native approaches to the measurement of inequality. In Chapter 3 we focus our attention on the Gini index, the most frequently used index of inequality, and its extensions. In Chapter 4 we formulate the notion of an ethical distance function that measures welfare of one population relative to another. Chapter 5 is devoted to quantifications and discussions of alternative definitions of relative deprivation put forward by Runci man(1966).

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Analyzing Multidimensional Well-Being

A Quantitative Approach

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

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Analyzing Multidimensional Well-Being

A Quantitative Approach

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

“An indispensable reference for all researchers interested in the measurement of social welfare. . .” —François Bourguignon, Emeritus Professor at Paris School of Economics, Former Chief Economist of the World Bank. “. . .a detailed, insightful, and pedagogical presentation of the theoretical grounds of multidimensional well-being, inequality, and poverty measurement. Any student, researcher, and practitioner interested in the multidimensional approach should begin their journey into such a fascinating theme with this wonderful book.” —François Maniquet, Professor, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. A Review of the Multidimensional Approaches to the Measurement of Welfare, Inequality, and Poverty Analyzing Multidimensional Well-Being: A Quantitative Approach offers a comprehensive approach to the measurement of well-being that includes characteristics such as income, health, literacy, and housing. The author presents a systematic comparison of the alternative approaches to the measurement of multidimensional welfare, inequality, poverty, and vulnerability. The text contains real-life applications of some multidimensional aggregations (most of which have been designed by international organizations such as the United Nations Development Program and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) that help to judge the performance of a country in the various dimensions of well-being. The text offers an evaluation of how well a society is doing with respect to achievements of all the individuals in the dimensions considered and clearly investigates how achievements in the dimensions can be evaluated from different perspectives. The author includes a detailed scrutiny of alternative techniques for setting weights to individual dimensional metrics and offers an extensive analysis into both the descriptive and welfare theoretical approaches to the concerned multi-attribute measurement and related issues. This important resource: • Contains a synthesis of multidimensional welfare, inequality, poverty, and vulnerability analysis • Examines aggregations of achievement levels in the concerned dimensions of well-being from various standpoints • Shows how to measure poverty using panel data instead of restricting attention to a single period and when we have imprecise information on dimensional achievements • Argues that multidimensional analysis is intrinsically different from marginal distributions-based analysis Written for students, teachers, researchers, and scholars, Analyzing Multidimensional Well-Being: A Quantitative Approach puts the focus on various approaches to the measurementof the many aspects of well-being and quality of life. Satya R. Chakravarty is a Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He is an Editor of Social Choice and Welfare and a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Economic Inequality.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119256909

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Econophysics of Income and Wealth Distributions

By: Bikas K. Chakrabarti,Anirban Chakraborti,Satya R. Chakravarty,Arnab Chatterjee

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Econophysics of Income and Wealth Distributions

By: Bikas K. Chakrabarti,Anirban Chakraborti,Satya R. Chakravarty,Arnab Chatterjee

The distribution of wealth and income is never uniform, and philosophers and economists have tried for years to understand the reasons and formulate remedies for such inequalities. This book introduces the elegant and intriguing kinetic exchange models that physicists have developed to tackle these issues. This is the first monograph in econophysics focussed on the analyses and modelling of these distributions, and is ideal for physicists and economists. It is written in simple, lucid language, with plenty of illustrations and in-depth analyses, making it suitable for researchers new to this field as well as specialized readers. It explores the origin of economic inequality and examines the scientific steps that can be taken to reduce this inequality in the future.

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Cambridge University Press

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113961956X

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Social Aggregations and Distributional Ethics

By: Satya R. Chakravarty,Manipushpak Mitra,Suresh Mutuswami

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Social Aggregations and Distributional Ethics

By: Satya R. Chakravarty,Manipushpak Mitra,Suresh Mutuswami

This book analyzes the following four distinct, although not dissimilar, areas of social choice theory and welfare economics: nonstrategic choice, Harsanyi's aggregation theorems, distributional ethics and strategic choice. While for aggregation of individual ranking of social states, whether the persons behave strategically or non-strategically, the decision making takes place under complete certainty; in the Harsanyi framework uncertainty has a significant role in the decision making process. Another ingenious characteristic of the book is the discussion of ethical approaches to evaluation of inequality arising from unequal distributions of achievements in the different dimensions of human well-being. Given its wide coverage, combined with newly added materials, end-chapter problems and bibliographical notes, the book will be helpful material for students and researchers interested in this frontline area research. Its lucid exposition, along with non-technical and graphical illustration of the concepts, use of numerical examples, makes the book a useful text.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009276263

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An Outline of Financial Economics

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

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An Outline of Financial Economics

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

“An Outline of Financial Economics” presents a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of finance and economics. The book follows an analytical and geometric methodology, explaining technical terms and mathematical operations in clear, non-technical language, and providing intuitive explanations of the mathematical results. The text begins with a discussion of financial instruments, which form the basis of finance theory, and goes on to analyze bonds – which are regarded as fixed income securities – in a simple framework, and to discuss the valuation of stocks and cash flows in detail. Highly relevant topics such as attitudes toward risk, uncertainty, the financial structure of a firm, stochastic dominance, portfolio management, option pricing and conditions for non-arbitrage are analyzed explicitly. Because of its wide coverage and analytical, articulate and authoritative presentation, “An Outline of Financial Economics” will be an indispensable book for finance researchers and undergraduate and graduate students in fields such as economics, finance, econometrics, statistics and mathematics.

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Anthem Press

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1783083360

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Vision for Science Education

By: Satya Prakash

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Vision for Science Education

By: Satya Prakash

The book is all about concern to Indian Science: “The standard of science education is declining alarmingly. The best minds are not turning to science, and those who do, do not remain in science. The Indian contribution to basic sciences in global context is reducing both in quality and quantity. What are the remedial measures?” It is strongly felt that there is an urgent need to take historic political decisions and to move fast to reverse the situation, the collective efforts of all akin to Bosonic character.

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The Social Role of the Gītā

How and why

By: Satya P. Agarwal

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The Social Role of the Gītā

How and why

By: Satya P. Agarwal

The present work is a new perspective on the Bhagavad-Gita, supported by through research, for it focuses attention on the social relevance of this famous Hindu scripture. Part 1 provides a penetrating analysis of how new interpretations of the Gita palyed a significant role in the social history of India during the ninteenth and twentieth centuries. The illustrative material consists of five case studies relating to : Raja Rammohun Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Aurobindo Ghose and Mahatma Gandhi. Part II expalins how the social applications of the Gita are linked with its most important teaching for the modern age, viz.,Loksamgraha- the good of the society. Lokasamgraha is a sanskrit term occurring in the Gita but not in Upanishads and a modern interpretation of the lokasamgraha-approach is the inculcation of social values and a sense of social responsibility in each individual.

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Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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8120815246

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A Course on Cooperative Game Theory

By: Satya R. Chakravarty,Manipushpak Mitra,Palash Sarkar

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A Course on Cooperative Game Theory

By: Satya R. Chakravarty,Manipushpak Mitra,Palash Sarkar

Deals with real life situations where objectives of the participants are partially cooperative and partially conflicting"--

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1107058791

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Inequality, Polarization and Conflict

An Analytical Study

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

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Inequality, Polarization and Conflict

An Analytical Study

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

This monograph initially offers a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of alternative notions of income polarization and related issues. It then goes on to analyze social polarization, ordinal polarization, and the relations between inequality polarization, fractionalization and likelihood of conflicts. Axiomatic approaches to the measurement of polarization from different perspectives are analyzed rigorously. In order to understand the difference between inequality and polarization, a discussion on income inequality is also included.

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Inequality, Polarization and Poverty

Advances in Distributional Analysis

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

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Advances in Distributional Analysis

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Ethical Social Index Numbers

By: Satya R. Chakravarty

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By: Satya R. Chakravarty

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Social Aggregations and Distributional Ethics

By: Satya R. Chakravarty,Manipushpak Mitra,Suresh Mutuswami

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Social Aggregations and Distributional Ethics

By: Satya R. Chakravarty,Manipushpak Mitra,Suresh Mutuswami

Ranking social states using individual rankings, strategic and non-strategic behaviors of individuals, ethical issues in distributional analysis.

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Inequality, Polarization and Poverty

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Ethical Social Index Numbers

Ethical Social Index Numbers

Analyzing Multidimensional Well-Being

Analyzing Multidimensional Well-Being

Econophysics of Income and Wealth Distributions

Econophysics of Income and Wealth Distributions

Social Aggregations and Distributional Ethics

Social Aggregations and Distributional Ethics

An Outline of Financial Economics

An Outline of Financial Economics

Vision for Science Education

Vision for Science Education

The Social Role of the Gītā

The Social Role of the Gītā

A Course on Cooperative Game Theory

A Course on Cooperative Game Theory

Inequality, Polarization and Conflict

Inequality, Polarization and Conflict

Inequality, Polarization and Poverty

Inequality, Polarization and Poverty

Ethical Social Index Numbers

Ethical Social Index Numbers

Social Aggregations and Distributional Ethics

Social Aggregations and Distributional Ethics

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