This book offers a collection of original, state-of-the-art essays addressing various aspects of the economic analysis of inequality, deprivation, poverty measurement and social polarization, at both the theoretical and empirical level. Written by leading authorities in the fields of...

Measuring Multi-dimensional Well-being and Deprivation with Discrete Ordinal Data -- Feasible Shared Destiny Risk Distributions -- Fuzzy Inequality Ranking Relations and their Crisp Approximations -- On pro-middle Class Growth -- Inequalities and Identities -- A Generalization of the Theil...