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
    

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

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.