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Why ethical measures of inequality need interpersonal comparisons

โœ Scribed by Peter J. Hammond

Book ID
104635738
Publisher
Springer US
Year
1976
Tongue
English
Weight
504 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-5833

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โœฆ Synopsis

An ethical measure of income inequality corresponds to a social ordering of income distributions. Without interpersonal comparisons, the only possible social orderings are dictatorial, so there can be no ethical inequality measure. Interpersonal comparisons allow a very much richer set of possible social orderings, and the construction of ethical measures of inequality. policy of any measure which is constructed will be, at best, obscure.

The alternative is to make interpersonal comparisons, to decide when one distribution of income is better than another, and to devise ethical inequality

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