The tools to be used and other choices to be made when measuring socioeconomic inequalities with rank-dependent inequality indices have recently been debated in this journal. This paper adds to this debate by stressing the importance of the measurement scale, by providing formal proofs of...

This is a unique and detailed book which surveys the diffusion and reception of Alfred Marshall’s ideas and the ways they have influenced the development of economic science up to the present day.

This paper explores four alternative indices for measuring health inequalities in a way that takes into account attitudes towards inequality. First, we revisit the extended concentration index which has been proposed to make it possible to introduce changes into the distributional value...

The little-known Belgian engineer Bernard Chait contributed to business cycle theory by means of a mathematical model, of which the 'law of divergence' was an important building block. The law of divergence has been interpreted as a generalization of the acceleration principle. This paper draws...

In a recent article in this journal, Takuo Dome examined Ricardo's theory of tax incidence by means of a formal model. In this comment, some of Dome's results are sharpened. Dome formulated sufficient conditions, which moreover contained endogenous variables. It is shown that these conditions...

Maurice Potron (1872-1942) is a French Jesuit and mathematician whose main source of inspiration in economics is the encyclical Rerum Novarum. With virtually no knowledge in economic theory, he wrote down a linear model of production in which he formalized the notions of just prices and just...