Chakravarty S.R. Inequality, Polarization and Conflict: An Analytical Study

Springer, 2015. — 143 p. — ISBN: 9788132221654, EISBN: 9788132221661The major concern of my two earlier Springer books Ethical Social Index Numbers and Inequality, Polarization and Poverty: Advances in Distributional Analysis was measurement of inequality, poverty and well-being. Only one chapter of the second monograph was devoted to an analysis of income polarization. However, research on polarization has gained impetus in the last decade because of the pivotal role of polarization in analyzing the evolution of the distribution of income, economic growth and social conflicts. Policy advisers in many countries now insist on looking at polarization as a source of social conflict. In view of this, the present monograph makes a systematic treatment of theory and methodology of alternative notions of polarization and related issues. A wide coverage of inequality, polarization and conflict is provided in the book. It gives an overall view of the recent developments in the subject.