Fragments of Inequality: Social, Spatial and Evolutionary Analyses of Income Distribution - Hardcover

Chakravorty, Sanjoy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415952956 ISBN 13: 9780415952958

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Synopsis:

One of the key concerns of all social scientists is inequality. It is not only one of the central problems of human existence, but an enormously complex phenomenon that is continuously changing. Using an interdisciplinary framework, "Fragments of Inequality" answers the most fundamental questions on inequality and income distribution. Author Chakravorty argues that social fragmentation and spatial fragmentation are the principal sources of income inequality, and shows how these factors change and thereby effect changes in distributional patterns. The first book-length treatment of a social theory of income distribution and an evolutionary approach to distributional analyses, Chakravorty's work shifts the discourse from a historical linear to historicized punctuated equilibrium models, from individuals to groups, and from abstract to fragmented space in order to culminate in a fundamental shift from economic to social theories of inequality.

A key text, this volume will be of interest to sociologists, geographers, and development economists, and is appropriate for use in graduate-level and upper-level undergraduate courses in inequality, economics, international studies, globalization and sociology.

About the Author:

Sanjoy Chakravorty is Associate Professor of Geography at Temple University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415952956
• ISBN 13: 9780415952958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276