Poverty in Europe /
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| Author / Creator: | Atkinson, A. B. (Anthony Barnes) 1944-2017. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1998. |
| Description: | xiv, 183 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Yrjö Jahnsson lectures. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3430809 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Poverty in Rich Countries
- Part I. Political Arithmetic: Financial Poverty in the European Union
- 1. The Measurement of Poverty: A Cautionary Tale of Comparing France and the United Kingdom
- 2. Absolute and Relative Standards
- 3. Expenditure versus Income, Households versus Families, and Choice of Equivalent Scale
- 4. Differing Judgements and Dominance Criteria
- 5. National Studies of Poverty
- Part II. Economics of Poverty and Exclusion
- 6. Unemployment and Exclusion in the Labour Market
- 7. Pricing and Exclusion from the Goods Market
- 8. Exclusion, Rising Living Standards and the Availability of Products
- 9. Household Production, Time and the Take-Up Problem
- Part III. Political Economy of Poverty
- 10. The Political Economy of an Official Poverty Line
- 11. Macro-Economic Policy and Poverty
- 12. Targeting and Efficiency in Alleviating Poverty
- 13. The Limits of Targeting via Means Tests
- 14. Towards a European Minimum.Envoi: Poverty, Policy and Mainstream Economics
- Appendix on Statistical Sources