标题:The Subjective Approach to the Measurement of Income Inequality (published in Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement, J Silber (ed), Kluwer Academic Publishers (1999), pp.227-241)
出版社:Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
摘要:Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality measurement is a relatively new and fast-developing area which focueses direct attention on these judgements. It is "subjective" in the sense that it takes account of people's views on distributional comparisons. This paper surveys some of the principal contributions of recent years
关键词:Measurement of inequality; subjective approach; value judgements; ;distributional comparisons