ABSTRACT
Adifferentapproachtoavoidtheadhockeryimplicitinmuchofthemeasurement ofinequality,otherthanthewelfare-baseddevelopmentabove,istospecifyasetof axiomsorminimalrequirementsthatanindexshouldobey.Ideally,thisleavesone withasingleindexformula,whichisthencharacterizedbytheseinitialaxioms.
