Cowell, Frank; Ebert, Udo - In: Social Choice and Welfare 23 (2004) 1, pp. 71-89
Temkin (1986, 1993) set out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important alternative to the mainstream welfarist approach. We show that the Temkin principles can be characterised by a parsimonious axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a...