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We state certain known results on (i) the inequality of income distributions, (ii) the riskiness of lotteries, and (iii) the informativeness of information structures, all in a multidimensional setup. We observe that these apparently different results all have the same formal structure and state a general mathematical theorem on the comparison of distributions of which they are all special cases.
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Nermuth, M. (1993). Different Economic Theories with the Same Formal Structure: Risk, Income Inequality, Information Structures, etc.. In: Diewert, W.E., Spremann, K., Stehling, F. (eds) Mathematical Modelling in Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78508-5_26
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