This is a collection of essays from leading public intellectuals that identifies major conceptual problems in the analysis of poverty and inequality and advance

The rise of populism in new democracies, especially in Latin America, has brought renewed urgency to the question of how liberal democracy deals with issues of

For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, this Handbook is the place to start. It is de

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 co

Leading scholars examine the conflicting paradigms of affluence and destitution in the United States—as well as other free societies—and discuss the influen