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...concept of well-being but is much more readily measured and compared across people. While economists care about other meanings of inequality, such as happiness, health, and abilities, they tend to use monetary resources, such as income or wealth, to understand these different meanings of inequality. Inequality in monetary terms is what is called economic inequality. You...

...de Janeiro, with 1 million people attending over the extended holiday weekend. The carnival has about 40,000 volunteers helping out and usually about 9,000 police. The carnival creates a huge surge in demand for both private and public services. In a normal year about 270 licensed food, drink and merchandise stalls temporarily appear. The organisers also provide support...

...concepts being mobilised, organised around what poverty means and therefore what you do about it, is that a reasonable conclusion to draw. Gail Lewis Absolutely. Let's think about an example from now. It's July 2001, and there's been a whole series of disturbances in West Yorkshire and Lancashire towns and most recently, and perhaps the most violent have been the ones in...