Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. A Hidden Inequality -- Worlds of Uncertainty -- Chapter 1. Earning -- Chapter 2. Spending -- Chapter 3. Smoothing and Spiking -- How Families Cope -- Chapter 4. Saving -- Chapter 5. Borrowing -- Chapter 6. Sharing -- New Ways of Seeing...

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