Measuring Inequality (Lse Handbooks in Economics Series)

Provides a short and accessible introduction to the concept of economic inequality and how inequality can be modelled and measured. The first edition was published in 1977; changes in the new edition reflect the wealth of material that has appeared in the literature on the axiomatic foundation of inequality analysis, on the formal relationships between inequality and social welfare, and related topics. Includes a computer disk that provides in ASCII and Lotus 1-2-3 files all material used for examples in the book. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.