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A note on the measurement of inequality and interpersonal comparability

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Inequality and welfare measures are constructed to satisfy homotheticity and additive separability but not symmetry. They lead to the simplest form of interpersonal comparability.

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  1. Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, 7-15 Gresse Street, W1P 1PA, London, England

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Fine, B. A note on the measurement of inequality and interpersonal comparability. Soc Choice Welfare 1, 273–277 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00649262

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