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Part I: Concepts and approaches 1. Income distribution in the history of economic thought.  Agnar Sandmo 2. Inequality, income and well-being.  Marc Fleurbaey, Erik Schokkaert and Koen Decancq 3. Multi-dimensional inequality and poverty.  Andrea Brandolini and Rolf Aaberge 4. Equality of opportunity.  John E. Roemer and Alain Trannoy 5. Polarization.   Jean-Yves Duclos 6. Statistical methods for distributional analysis.  Frank Cowell and Emmanuel Flachaire Part II Evidence 7. Long-run trends in the distribution of income and wealth.   Daniel Waldenstrom and Jesper Roine 8. Post-1970 trends in within-country inequality and poverty.   Timothy Michael Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson and Salvatore Morelli 9. Post-1970 trends in inequality and poverty in developing and emerging countries.  Facundo Alvaredo and Leonardo Gasparini 10. Income mobility.  Markus Jantti and Stephen Jenkins 11. The Global distribution of income.  Sudhir Anand and Paul Segal 12. Gender inequality.  Dominique Meurs and Sophie Ponthieux 13. Experimental and survey evidence about attitudes to inequality.   Andrew Clark and Conchita d'Ambrosio