Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12 is the outgrowth of University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference, May 22-25, 2003. The motivation for the conference was to honor John P. Formby upon his retirement. The conference, funded by the University, was designed to bring together...

The essays in this series offer fresh theoretical and methodological insights into the key issues in the field of economic inequality. The content is comprised of highly topical subject matter with key researchers in the field contributing.

Equal liberties and the resulting optimum income distribution and taxation / Serge-Christophe Kolm -- Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity :a comparison of the United States and Germany / Ingvild Alm(c)®as -- Intergenerational income inequality and dynastic poverty persistence :...

This volume contains papers from the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality's third meeting held in Buenos Aries, Argentina, in July 2009. The first five papers focus on a number of Latin American countries, on the understudied topics of poverty and inequality in these areas. Specific...