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Pigou-Dalton transfer principle: a standalone construct

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Public economics

requirement that an inequality measure fall when income moves from a richer to a poorer person without reversing their ranks.

In public economics, Pigou-Dalton transfer principle refers to requirement that an inequality measure fall when income moves from a richer to a poorer person without reversing their ranks. This meaning comes from Dalton (1920) in The Economic Journal.[1]

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References

Dalton, H. (1920). The Measurement of the Inequality of Incomes. The Economic Journal, 30(119), 348. https://doi.org/10.2307/2223525

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