An Atkinson-gini family of social evaluation functions

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Araar, Abdelkrim ^a   Duclos, Jean Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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