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incorporating (the level of) absolute wealth in the individual's utility function. …
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incorporating (the level of) absolute wealth in the individual’s utility function. …
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The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a measure of social stress and aggregate income. We...
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' utility functions incorporate distaste for low relative income, a utilitarian will select exactly the same income distribution …
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' utility functions incorporate distaste for low relative income, a utilitarian will select exactly the same income distribution …
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When individuals’ utility is a convex combination of their income and their concern at having a low relative income … aggregate utility yields an equal income distribution. This alignment of utilitarianism and egalitarianism is obtained for any … number of individuals, and for general utility functions that are convex combinations of a power function of income and the …
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