Handbook of Income Disribution: Volume 2B (Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2B) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444594299 ISBN 13: 9780444594297

Publisher: North Holland, 2014

Synopsis

What new theories, evidence, explanations, and policies have shaped our studies of income distribution in the 21st century?

Editors Tony Atkinson and Francois Bourguignon assemble the expertise of leading authorities in this survey of substantive issues. In two volumes they address subjects that were not covered in Volume 1 (2000), such as education, health and experimental economics; and subjects that were covered but where there have been substantial new developments, such as the historical study of income inequality and globalization. Some chapters discuss future growth areas, such as inheritance, the links between inequality and macro-economics and finance, and the distributional implications of climate change. They also update empirical advances and major changes in the policy environment.

• The volumes define and organize key areas of income distribution studies
• Contributors focus on identifying newly developing questions and opportunities for future research
• The authoritative articles emphasize the ways that income mobility and inequality studies have recently gained greater political significance

About this title

Review:

Two authoritative volumes summarize advances in core knowledge about income inequality and mobility, evidence, policies, and techniques as well as new subjects and promising areas of interest

About the Author:

Sir Tony Atkinson is Professor of Economics at Oxford University and Fellow of Nuffield College, where he was Warden from 1994 to 2005. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been President of the Royal Economic Society, of the Econometric Society, of the European Economic Association, and of the International Economic Association. He was knighted in 2001 for services to economics and is Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0444594299
• ISBN 13: 9780444594297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1078
• Editor: Atkinson Anthony B., Bourguignon Francois