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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.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Measuring Inequality.- Chapter 2. On the Measurement of Income Bipolarization.- Chapter 3. Measurement of Income Multi-Polar Polarization.- Chapter 4. Reduced -Form Indices of Income Polarization.- Chapter 5. Social Polarization.- Chapter 6. Measurement of Polarization for a Dimension of Human Well-being with Ordinal Significance.- Chapter 7. Fractionalization, Polarization and Conflict.
About the author
Satya R. Chakravarty is a Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He has articles published in many internationally known journals and edited volumes on welfare issues, cooperative game theory, industrial organization and mathematical finance; and books published by Cambridge University Press and Springer. He is an Associate Editor of
Social Choice and Welfare, a member of the Editorial Board of
Journal of Economic Inequality and a Co-editor of
Economics -E Journal. He is a consultant to the Asian Development Bank, an external adviser of the World Bank and worked as an adviser of the National Council of Social Policy Evaluation, Mexico. He was awarded the Mahalanobis memorial prize by the Indian Econometric Society in 1994 and is a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association.
Summary
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.
