Term 1 Week 9
Learning objectives:
- Undertand the problem of uncertainlty in the sampling process
- Learn how to quantify this uncertainty
- Learn how to decide on the approppriate level of uncertainty
- Understand the complexities in conceptualising and operationalising inequality
Lecture:
- Homework week 9: Read the required literature
- Required reading week 9:
- Agresti, A. and B. Finlay (2008) Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Chapter 4
- Agresti, A. and B. Finlay (2008) Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Chapter 4
Seminar:
- Homework week 9:
- Read the required literature (see below)
- Critically reflect on the problems involved in conceptualising inequaity
- Find at least two real-world examples of inequality and prepare to give a short presentation on these
- You are expected to put at least 4 hours into this!
- Required reading week 9:
- Todaro M. and Stephen C. Smith. 2011. Economic Development. Addison Wesley. Chapter 5
- Either of these two:
- Fields, Gary S. 2002. Distribution and Development - A New Look at the Developing World. MIT Press. Chapters 1-3, OR
- Ray, Debraj. 1998. Development Economics. Princeton University Press. Chapter 6
- Fields, Gary S. 2002. Distribution and Development - A New Look at the Developing World. MIT Press. Chapters 1-3, OR
Further Reading:
- Collier, Paul. 2008. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Piketty, Thomas. 2013. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard University Press.
- Stigitz, Joseph. 2013. The Price of Inequality - How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future. New York: Norton & Company Ltd.