With six essays exploring different aspects of economic growth, poverty, inequality and social security, this book …

The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945: An Introduction -- How Employers and … Tax Policy, 1940s to 1960s -- Unfairness, Inequality, and Tax Evasion: An Analysis of the Distribution of the Tax Burden … in Greece, 1955-1989 -- Limits to Redistribution in Late Democratic Transitions: The Case of Spain …

INTRODUCTION -- Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America … -- PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS -- Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3 …. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile since 1850 -- Chapter 4. What Human Heights Can Explain about the …

Introduction -- Ethnic Heterogeneity -- The Welfare State -- Poverty and Inequality -- Ethnic Heterogeneity and the … Welfare State -- Ethnic Heterogeneity and Poverty and Inequality -- Conclusion -- References -- Index … of the relevance of population heterogeneity in determining variations in welfare state policies as well as inequality …

Overview -- Inequality, Poverty, and Welfare: Social Welfare and Income Distributions -- Inequality and Poverty Indexes … -- Welfare and Efficiency: Inequality, Efficiency, and the Production Sphere -- Efficiency and Welfare -- Information Incentives … social production function. Various experiments are presented which show how income inequality (measured by means of the …

Redistributive Aspects of ELIE: A Simulation Approach -- The Tradeoff Between Growth and Redistribution: ELIE in an Overlapping … construction: collective agreement on the scheme of labour income redistribution, collective agreement on the degree of …

for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare …