Poverty and Inequality (Studies in Social Inequality) PDF
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Poverty and Inequality David B. Grusky and Ravi Kanbur Editors Stanford University Press p o v e rt y a n d i n e q u a l i t y STUDIES IN SOCIAL INEQUALITY editors David B. Grusky, stanford university Paula England, stanford university editorial board Hans-Peter Blossfeld Mary C. Brinton Thomas DiPrete Michael Hout Andrew Walder Mary Waters other books in the series Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics Edited by Stephen L. Morgan, David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields 2006 On the Edge of Commitment: Educational Attainment and Race in the United States By Stephen L. Morgan 2005 OccupationalGhettos:TheWorldwideSegregationof WomenandMen By Maria Charles and David B. Grusky 2004 Home Ownership and Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective Edited by Karin Kurz and Hans-Peter Blossfeld 2004 Reconfigurations of Class and Gender Edited by Janeen Baxter and Mark Western 2001 Women’s Working Lives in East Asia Edited by Mary C. Brinton 2001 The Classless Society By Paul W. Kingston 2000 poverty and inequality Edited by David B. Grusky and Ravi Kanbur Essays by Amartya Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum, François Bourguignon, William J. Wilson, Douglas S. Massey, and Martha A. Fineman stanford university press stanford, california 2006 Stanford University Press Stanford, California ©2006 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any infor- mation storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Poverty and inequality / edited by David B. Grusky and Ravi Kanbur ; essays by Amartya Sen . . . [et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8047-4842-X (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8047-4843-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Poverty. 2. Equality. 3. Marginality, Social. 4. Social classes. 5. Social policy. I. Grusky, DavidB. II. Kanbur, S.M. Ravi. III. Sen, Amartya Kumar. HV13.P68 2006 339.4(cid:2)6—dc22 2005022563 Original Printing 2006 Last figure below indicates year of this printing: 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 Typeset by G&S Book Services in 10/14 Sabon contents Contributors ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi chapter one Introduction: The Conceptual Foundations of Poverty and Inequality Measurement 1 David B. Grusky and Ravi Kanbur chapter two Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty 30 Amartya Sen chapter three Poverty and Human Functioning: Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements 47 Martha C. Nussbaum chapter four From Income to Endowments: The Difficult Task of Expanding the Income Poverty Paradigm 76 François Bourguignon chapter five Social Theory and the Concept “Underclass” 103 William Julius Wilson vii viii Contents chapter six Race, Class, and Markets: Social Policy in the 21st Century 117 Douglas S. Massey chapter seven Dependency and Social Debt 133 Martha Albertson Fineman Notes 153 References 165 Index 181 contributors François Bourguignon is the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank. Since 1985 he has been Professor of Economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he founded and directed the Département et laboratoire d’Economie Théorique et Ap- pliquée (DELTA), a research unit in theoretical and applied economics. He has held academic positions with the University of Chile, Santiago, and the University of Toronto. His recent publications include The Impact of Eco- nomic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools(2004, edited with Luiz Pereira da Silva) and The Microeconom- ics of Income Distribution Dynamics(2005, edited with Francisco Ferreira and Nora Lustig). MarthaAlbertsonFinemanistheRobertW.WoodruffProfessorofLawat Emory University and the Director of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project.PriortocomingtoEmoryshewastheDortheaS.ClarkeProfessor of Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School. She also held a Chair atColumbiaUniversity(1990–1999)andwasonthefacultyattheUniver- sity of Wisconsin (1976–1990). Professor Fineman is the author of The IllusionofEquality:TheRhetoricandRealityofDivorceReform(1991), The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family, and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies(1995)and,mostrecently,TheAutonomyMyth:ATheoryofDe- pendency(2004). David B. Grusky is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and in- coming Director of the new Program on Inequality at Stanford University. Before joining Stanford University, he taught at the University of Chicago and at Cornell University. His recent books include Social Stratification (2001), Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men (2004, with Maria Charles), Inequality:Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender(with Szonja Szelényi, forthcoming), and Mobility and Inequality(forthcoming from Stanford University Press, with Stephen Mor- gan and Gary Fields). ix
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