Abstract
Pareto had considerable influence on the discussion of the theory of income distribution proposing in 1895 the famous law which took his name. He noted that it was able to describe the income distributions published by financial statistics organizations in many countries and so he thought that it might be universal. The law was criticized by many economists and statisticians for the considerations made by Pareto in its formulation.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Aigner, D.J., Goldbergher, S. (1970), Estimation of Pareto’s Law from grouped observations, J.A.S.A., Vol. 65, n. 330, pp. 712–723.
Arnold, B.C. (1983), Pareto distributions, International Co-Operative Publishing House, Fairland Ma.
Boldrini, M. (1968), Statistica: teoria e metodi, 5 ed., Giuffrè Ed., Milano.
Dagum, C. (1977), A new model of Personal Income Distribution: Specification and Estimation, Economie Appliquée, vol. XXX, n. 3, pp. 413–436.
Faliva, M. (1987), Econometria. Principi e Metodi, UTET, Torino.
Gastwirth, J.L., Nayak, T., Krieger, A. (1986), Large Sample Theory for the bounds on the Gini and Related Indices of Inequality Estimated from Grouped Data, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 4, n. 2, pp. 269–273.
Gini, C. (1909), II diverso accrescimento delle classi sociali e la concentrazione della ricchezza, Giornale degli Economistt, vol. XXXVIII, pp. 69–83.
Guerrieri, G., Bonadies, P. (1987), Su alcuni modelli teorici per l’analisi della distribuzione personale dei redditi, in AA.VV., La distribuzione personale del reddito: problemi di formazione, di ripartizione e di misurazione, ed. M. Zenga, Vita e Pensiero, Milano.
Johnson, N., Kotz, S. (1970), Distributions in Statistiscs: Continous univariate distributions, vol. 1, pp. 233 ss., Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
Pareto, V. (1896), II modo di figurare i fenomeni economici, Giornale degli Economisti.
Pareto, V. (1897), Cours d’economie politique, Rouge, Lausanne.
Quandt, R.E. (1966), Old and new Methods of Estimation and the Pareto Distribution, Metrika, 10, pp. 55–82.
Tarsitano, A. (1989), The Bonferroni Index of Income distribution,infra.
Zenga, M. (1987), Il contributo degli italiani allo studio della concentrazione, parte I: 1895–1915, in A.A.VV., Las distribuzione personale del reddito: problem di formazione, di ripartizione e di missurazione, ed. Zenga, Vita e Pensiero, Milano.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1990 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Pollastri, A. (1990). A Comparison Of The Traditional Estimators Of The Parameter α Of The Pareto Distribution. In: Dagum, C., Zenga, M. (eds) Income and Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Poverty. Studies in Contemporary Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84250-4_12
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84250-4_12
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-52863-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-84250-4
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive