This title was first published in 1991: This collection focuses on the concepts and measurements of inequality, poverty, the concentration of wealth, and the implications of these issues for social policies. A special feature of this work is the international comparisons of the evidence on economic inequality.

Lars Osberg

1: The Measurement of Income Inequality; 2: Cross-National Comparisons of Inequality and Poverty Position; 3: Global Economic Inequality and Its Trends Since 1950; 4 The Distribution of Household Wealth: Methodological Issues, Time Trends, and Cross-Sectional Comparisons; 5: The Definition and Measurement of Poverty; 6: Short- and Long-Term Poverty in the United States: Measuring the American "Underclass"; 7: Social Security and Income Redistribution; 8: The Impact of Government Tax and Expenditure Programs on the Distribution of Income in the United States; Conclusion