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- Offers an overview of recent developments in the area of, and discusses the relations between inequality, polarization, fractionalization and the potential for conflicts
- Presents an up-to-date, systematic treatment of income bipolarization and multi-polar polarization, social polarization, and ordinal polarization
- Employs an analytical and geometric methodology, explains technical terms and mathematical operations in a clear manner, and provides intuitive explanations of the mathematical results
Part of the book series: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being (EIAP, volume 12)
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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.
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Book Title: Inequality, Polarization and Conflict
Book Subtitle: An Analytical Study
Authors: Satya R. Chakravarty
Series Title: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2166-1
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2165-4Published: 27 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2916-2Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-2166-1Published: 12 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2364-107X
Series E-ISSN: 2364-1088
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 137
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Development Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Social Policy, Economic Policy, Labor Economics