Modeling Income Distributions and Lorenz CurvesDuangkamon Chotikapanich Springer Science & Business Media, 2008. szept. 16. - 322 oldal Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in the Preface to his famous Discourse on Inequality that “I consider the subject of the following discourse as one of the most interesting questions philosophy can propose, and unhappily for us, one of the most thorny that philosophers can have to solve. For how shall we know the source of inequality between men, if we do not begin by knowing mankind?” (Rousseau, 1754). This citation of Rousseau appears in an article in Spanish where Dagum (2001), in the memory of whom this book is published, also cites Socrates who said that the only useful knowledge is that which makes us better and Seneca who wrote that knowing what a straight line is, is not important if we do not know what rectitude is. These references are indeed a good illustration of Dagum’s vast knowledge, which was clearly not limited to the ?eld of Economics. For Camilo the ?rst part of Rousseau’s citation certainly justi?ed his interest in the ?eld of inequality which was at the centre of his scienti?c preoccupations. It should however be stressed that for Camilo the second part of the citation represented a “solid argument in favor of giving macroeconomic foundations to microeconomic behavior” (Dagum, 2001). More precisely, “individualism and methodological holism complete each other in contributing to the explanation of individual and social behavior” (Dagum, 2001). |
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A Function for Size Distribution of Incomes | 27 |
Some Generalized Functions for the Size Distribution of Income | 37 |
Efficient Estimation of the Lorenz Curve and Associated Inequality | 57 |
Distribution and Mobility of Wealth of Nations | 71 |
Survey papers on Lorenz functions | 96 |
Duangkamon Chotikapanich | 112 |
Pareto and Generalized Pareto Distributions | 119 |
Estimation of Income Distribution from Bonferroni Indices This paper proposes | 194 |
New Four and FiveParameter Models for Income Distributions | 211 |
Fuzzy Monetary Poverty Measures under a Dagum Income Distributive Hypoth | 225 |
Robust and Semiparametric Issues | 241 |
ity with a Single Parameter In this paper a new single parameter model is proposed | 255 |
Lorenz Curves and Generalised Entropy Inequality Measures | 271 |
written by Nicholas Rohde The paper establishes the general relationship between | 280 |
Estimating Income Distributions Using a Mixture of Gamma Densities | 285 |
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