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Ethical Social Index Numbers

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Satya R. Chakravarty

    1. Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie und OR, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
      Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. On Quasi-Orderings of Income Profiles

    • Satya R. Chakravarty
    Pages 1-26

  3. Ethical Indices of Inequality

    • Satya R. Chakravarty
    Pages 27-81

  4. The Gini Indices of Inequality

    • Satya R. Chakravarty
    Pages 82-113

  5. Ethical Indices Of Distance Between Income Profiles

    • Satya R. Chakravarty
    Pages 114-130

  6. The Measurement of Relative Deprivation

    • Satya R. Chakravarty
    Pages 131-145

  7. Ethically Flexible Indices of Poverty

    • Satya R. Chakravarty
    Pages 146-184

  8. Additively Decomposable Indices of Poverty

    • Satya R. Chakravarty
    Pages 185-207

  9. Measurement of Tax Progressivity and Horizontal Inequity

    • Satya R. Chakravarty
    Pages 208-241

  10. Ethical Indices of Income Mobility

    • Satya R. Chakravarty
    Pages 242-269

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 270-309
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In this book we are concerned with income profile based ethical social index numbers. An ethical index is designed from an explicit social evaluation function with a specific purpose in mind. For example, an ethical relative inequality index determines the fraction of total income that could be saved without any welfare loss if society distri­ buted incomes equally. Ethical indices contrast with descriptive indices which are de­ rived without using any concept of social welfare. Needless to say, ethical indices are not meant to supplant descriptive indices, rather they are constructed with different aims. We begin Chapter 1 with a formal discussion on the concept of a social evaluation function. In the main body of this chapter we consider the problem of ranking income profiles using a social evaluation function. In Chapter 2 we set about analyzing alter­ native approaches to the measurement of inequality. In Chapter 3 we focus our attention on the Gini index, the most frequently used index of inequality, and its extensions. In Chapter 4 we formulate the notion of an ethical distance function that measures welfare of one population relative to another. Chapter 5 is devoted to quantifications and discussions of alternative definitions of relative deprivation put forward by Runci­ man(1966).

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  • Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie und OR, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Satya R. Chakravarty

  • Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

    Satya R. Chakravarty

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