Eliazar, Iddo I.; Sokolov, Igor M. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 4, pp. 1323-1353
Motivated by the question “how equal is the distribution of wealth within a given human population?” economics devised an impressive toolbox of quantitative measures of societal egalitarianism including the Lorenz curve and the following indices: Gini, Pietra, Hoover, Amato, Hirschman,...