TY - BOOK AU - Chakravarty,Satya R. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Inequality, Polarization and Conflict: An Analytical Study T2 - Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being, SN - 9788132221661 AV - HD72-88 U1 - 338.9 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - Springer India, Imprint: Springer KW - economic theory KW - Economic policy KW - Social policy KW - Labor economics KW - Development Economics KW - Economics KW - Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods KW - Social Policy KW - Economic Policy KW - Labor Economics N1 - Chapter 1. Measuring Inequality -- Chapter 2. On the Measurement of Income Bipolarization -- Chapter 3. Measurement of Income Multi-Polar Polarization -- Chapter 4. Reduced -Form Indices of Income Polarization -- Chapter 5. Social Polarization -- Chapter 6. Measurement of Polarization for a Dimension of Human Well-being with Ordinal Significance.- Chapter 7. Fractionalization, Polarization and Conflict N2 - This monograph initially offers a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of alternative notions of income polarization and related issues. It then goes on to analyze social polarization, ordinal polarization, and the relations between inequality polarization, fractionalization and likelihood of conflicts. Axiomatic approaches to the measurement of polarization from different perspectives are analyzed rigorously. In order to understand the difference between inequality and polarization, a discussion on income inequality is also included UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2166-1 ER -