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CS92PROD
Introduction to Income and Wealth Inequality: Theory and Empirics
ECON 351
Fall 2024
Section: 01  

This course is an introduction to the research on income and wealth inequality. The first part of the course presents the main statistical and mathematical concepts applied to the study of income and wealth distribution. In the second part, we will deal with the conceptualization of income distribution from the time of the pre-classical and classical political economists (Petty, Quesnay, Ricardo, Marx) to the 20th-century economists (Pareto, Kuznets, Atkinson, Taylor, Milanovic, Piketty). In the third part, we will explore the methods for reconstructing income and wealth data and the main results exposed in several databases such as the World Inequality Database (WID), the LIS Database, and the Estimated Household Income Inequality Data Set (EHII). Finally, we will discuss the literature on the determinants and consequences of income and wealth inequality from a critical perspective. That literature review includes discussions about race, gender, class, and global inequality.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS ECON
Course Format: Lecture / DiscussionGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: ECON300 AND ECON301 AND ECON302
Fulfills a Requirement for: None
Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available

Last Updated on OCT-31-2024
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