Philosophical accounts of vagueness, fuzzy poverty measures and multidimensionality

Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 9-28

  Qizilbash, Mozaffar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borderline case; Core dimension; Degree theory; Fuzzy measure; Poverty measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064914899     PISSN: 2364107X     EISSN: 23641088     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-34251-1_2     Document Type: Chapter

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