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The first question that comes into one’s mind about the measurement of the inequality in an income distribution is a simple-minded one: why should such a measure differ from measures of other kinds of inequalities? Statisticians have a collection of such measures and among them the mean deviation, the standard deviation and the mean difference (or Gini coefficient), either absolute or relativised to the arithmetical mean, seem to be reasonable candidates. Is it not the simplest solution to use one of these?
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Hansson, B. (1977). The Measurement of Social Inequality. In: Butts, R.E., Hintikka, J. (eds) Foundational Problems in the Special Sciences. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1141-9_20
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