The normative approach to the measurement of multidimensional inequality

Inequality and Economic Integration

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 296-321

  Weymark, John A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203325100     Document Type: Chapter

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