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Generation And Properties Of Income Distribution Functions

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Income and Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Poverty

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The issues of income and wealth distributions and their associated concepts of economic inequality and social welfare recognizes a long and enlightened tradition to which the Code of Hammurabi, the contributions of Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, J.J. Rousseau and several XlXth Century socialists philosophers and economists belong.

Research grants from the University of Ottowa (Canada) and the Consiglio Naziole delle Ricerche (Italy) to the CRIDIRE (University of Sienna) are gratefully acknowledged.

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Dagum, C. (1990). Generation And Properties Of Income Distribution Functions. 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_1

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