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Linking the Functional and Personal Distributions of Income

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Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement

Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought Series ((RETH,volume 71))

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By application of the national account system that stems from Luca Paccioli’s accounting principle we can deduce Q = Y = Z, for the three categories of outcome of any macroeconomic process, i.e., output (Q), income (Y) and expenditure (Z).

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Dagum, C. (1999). Linking the Functional and Personal Distributions of Income. In: Silber, J. (eds) Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4413-1_3

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