Inequality can refer to economic inequality which is the difference in how assets, wealth, or income are distributed among individuals and/or populations. It is also described as the gap between rich and poor, income inequality, wealth disparity, wealth and income differences, or the wealth gap....

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Basic concepts -- chapter 2 Forerunners and founders W. Petty (1623–1687), T.R Malthus (1766–1834), -- chapter 3 Followers and critics, 1900 to 1920: from Hobson to Adriance -- chapter 4 Followers and critics, 1920 to 1940: From Cassel to Fraser -- chapter 5...

While the Poisson distribution is a classical statistical model for count data, the distributional model hinges on the constraining property that its mean equal its variance. This text instead introduces the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution and motivates its use in developing flexible...