Poverty, Income Inequality, and Their Measures: Professor Sen's Axiomatic Approach Reconsidered

DOI10.2307/1910420zbMath0421.90021OpenAlexW2007959309WikidataQ59443505 ScholiaQ59443505MaRDI QIDQ3854892

Noriyuki Takayama

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1910420

zbMATH Keywords

Gini coefficientincome inequalitymeasurement of inequalityordinalist axiomatic approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Mathematical economics (91B99)

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