Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Macro-Economy and Human Development
- Part II Sources of Inequality and Poverty
- Part III Sectoral Effects
- Part IV Radical Humanism
- Appendix 2.1 Cash Use in India: A Cross-Country Comparison
- Appendix 2.2 Macro-Economic Comparisons: Selected Economies
- Appendix 4.1 Selected Country Tables
- Appendix 5.1 Evidence on Inequality in the US
- Appendix 8.1 Impact of Land Policy
- Appendix 11.1 Impact of Asset Transfer on the Poor
- Index
Part II - Sources of Inequality and Poverty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Macro-Economy and Human Development
- Part II Sources of Inequality and Poverty
- Part III Sectoral Effects
- Part IV Radical Humanism
- Appendix 2.1 Cash Use in India: A Cross-Country Comparison
- Appendix 2.2 Macro-Economic Comparisons: Selected Economies
- Appendix 4.1 Selected Country Tables
- Appendix 5.1 Evidence on Inequality in the US
- Appendix 8.1 Impact of Land Policy
- Appendix 11.1 Impact of Asset Transfer on the Poor
- Index
Summary
There is no substitute for natural language when it comes to expressing social identities or defining political ideologies … (or) when it comes to doing research in social science or thinking about the just society. Those who believe that we will one day be able to rely on a mathematical formula, algorithm, or economic model to determine the ‘socially optimal’ level of inequality are destined to be disappointed.
Thomas Piketty- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Creation of Poverty and Inequality in IndiaExclusion, Isolation, Domination and Extraction, pp. 97 - 98Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2023