Measures of relative equality and their meaning in terms of social welfare

DOI10.1016/0022-0531(78)90042-XMaRDI QIDQ1256944zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson

Publication date 1978

Published in Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0531(78)90042-X

zbMATH Keywords

AlgorithmEconomic IndicesIncome DistributionMeasures of Relative EqualitySocial Welfare Functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) Economic time series analysis (91B84)

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