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| Social exclusion, social isolation and the distribution of income | | Author(s) | Brian Barry |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 1999 |
| Pages | 23 pp (CASEpaper 12) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Social economics ; Poverty ; Isolation ; Remuneration ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The argument of this paper is that social exclusion is a phenomenon distinct from poverty and also distinct from economic inequality. There is an association between dispersion of incomes and social exclusion, but it is not a straightforward one. The significance of personal income for the capacity to share common institutions depends on the accessibility of these institutions to all on a free or heavily subsidized basis. However, in a society such as in the UK, to avoid social exclusion of a minority it is necessary for no-one to have less than half the median income; and that to avoid the social exclusion of the majority it is necessary for only a few to have more than three times the median income. The author concludes this study by querying the government's concern with social exclusion and yet it is indifferent to inequality: the two concepts must be closely connected, bearing in mind the market mechanism for distributing goods and services. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990303204 B |
| Classmark | W4: W6: TP: WL: TM2 |
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