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Resources

Consult Core Econ’s Fact checker for a detailed list of sources.

Exercises

  • Exercise 1: Inequality of opportunity or inequality of outcomes
  • Exercise 2: Apply the principles of justice
  • Exercise 3: Perceptions of inequality
  • Exercise 4: Comparing market income and disposable income
  • Exercise 5: Working with data
  • Exercise 6: Construct a Lorenz curve
  • Exercise 7: Understanding how population size affects the Gini coefficient
  • Exercise 8: Local and global income distributions

Figures

  • Figure 1: Lorenz curve
  • Figure 2: Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient
  • Figure 3: Disposable and market income inequality in the US and Sweden 1979–2013
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      1. Home — Insights
      1. List of resources
      2. Contents
      3. Highlights
      4. 1 Introduction
      5. 2 The meaning and evaluation of economic inequality
      6. 3 Measuring economic inequality
      7. 4 Global inequality and policy solutions
      8. 5 Conclusion
      9. 6 Acknowledgements
      10. 7 References
      11. Glossary

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