Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
The Distribution of Income Between Persons
D. G. Champernowne · 1973
75/100
👍 Worth It
Champernowne's 1973 treatise is a legitimate landmark in economic theory — the stochastic modeling of income distributions was original and rigorous, and A. B. Atkinson's praise for its Chapter 21 as a tour de force is a credible endorsement from a peer of the first rank. The compressed mathematical reasoning demands graduate-level expertise, and the book's scarcity makes it practically inaccessible to most readers. Worth it on intellectual merit for the right specialist audience, but not for general readers.
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