Author: Atkinson, A.B.
Title: Poverty in Europe
Description: Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, (1998). orig.boards. 22x13cm, xiv,183 pp. Minor rubbing. Small chip to spine. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Poverty in Rich Countries; Political Arithmetic,; Financial Poverty in the European Union; The Measurement of Poverty: Two Cautionary Tales; Absolute & Relative Standards; Expenditure versus Income,Households versus Families, & Choice of Equivalence Scale; Differing Judgements & Dominance Criteria; National Studies of Poverty; Economics of Poverty, Unemployment & Social Education: Macro-economics of Unemployment &Poverty; Economics of Unemployment & Exclusion in the Labour Market; Pricing of Goods & Exclusion from the Market; Exclusion, Rising Living standards and the Availability of Products; Household Production, Time & the Take-up Problem; Political Economy of Poverty: The Political Economy of an Official Poverty Line; Targeting of Social Transfers & Efficiency in Alleviating Poverty; The Limits of Targeting via Means Tests; Towards a European Minimum; What Form for a European Minimum?; Envoi: Poverty, Policy & Mainstream Econiomics; Appendix.

Keywords: Poverty, Economics, Economic Economy, European Union, Social Policy, Poor, Unemployment, Europe, Sociology