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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

080474842X (cloth : alk. paper) 0804748438 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Poverty.
Equality
Marginality, Social
Social classes
Social policy

HV13 / .P68 2006

339.4/6