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DARP Paper

Gini, Deprivation and Complaints

Frank A Cowell

Recent insights from the philosopher Larry Temkin have suggested a new basis for the measurement of income inequality, founded on the notion of individual complaints. about income distribution. Under certain specificatio...Read more...

February 2006

DARP Paper

Complaints and Inequality, (published in Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 23, (2004), pp. 71-89.

Frank A Cowell and Udo Ebert

Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important alternative to the mainstream welfarist approach. We show that the Temkin principles can be characterised...Read more...

March 2002

DARP Paper

Measuring Inequality by Counting 'Complaints': Theory and Empirics, (published in Economics and Philosophy, vol. 19 (2003) pp. 241–263)

Kurt Devooght

This paper examines how people assess inequality of an income distribution and how inequality could be measured. We start from philosophical analysis of L Temkin who distinguishes nine plausible aspects of inequality. Hi...Read more...

January 2002