To Each the Same and to Each his Own
A Proposal to Measure Responsibility‐Sensitive Income Inequality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9726411 |
|---|---|
| Authors | KURT DEVOOGHT (KU Leuven, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 298 |
| Pages | 280-295 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2007.00602.x |
| OpenAlex | W2145688593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper deals with the question of how to incorporate modern responsibility‐catering egalitarianism into economic theory on the measurement of income inequality. I present a particular axiomatic expression of the main aspects of such egalitarianism. Then, to measure offensive inequality separately I construct a norm or reference income distribution based upon the axiomatic model to replace the perfectly equal income distribution that is used as norm by all common inequality measures. I defend the use of a particular measure of distributional change to determine the degree of offensive inequality, and apply the method to Belgian income data
Axiom · Axiomatic system · Distribution (mathematics) · Econometrics · Economic inequality · Economics · Egalitarianism · Income distribution · Income inequality metrics · Inequality · Mathematical analysis · Mathematical economics · Measure (data warehouse) · Norm (philosophy) · Offensive · Political science · Public economics · Welfare economics · Computer Science · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |