BOSSERT, Walter; PATTANAIK, Prasanta K.; XU, Yongsheng - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2001
The notion of diversity is an issue that is of relevance in several contexts. For example, the biodiversity of a given … ecological environment and the diversity of the options available to a decision maker have attracted some attention in recent … research. This paper provides an axiomatic approach to the measurement of diversity. We characterize two nested classes of …