Unveiling the Ethics behind Inequality Measurement

This article assesses the importance of Dalton's 1920 paper in the Economic Journal for subsequent developments in income distribution analysis. Dalton, H. (1920). 'The measurement of the inequality of incomes', Economic Journal, vol. 30(119), pp. 348–61

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