Derobert, Laurent; Thieriot, Guillaume - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 10 (2003) 4, pp. 573-585
In 1905, Max O. Lorenz suggested a simple method of measuring the concentration of wealth, based on the visual … representation of income distribution. The Lorenz curve is now very popular and can be considered as canonical. However, the path … leading from Lorenz's original work to contemporary interpretations of his graph has been anything but simple. We thus propose …