ABSTRACT
The distribution function We wish to study how economic goods are distributed within a group of persons. ‘Economic goods’ can be income, wealth, a combination of the two, or any other measure of access to economic goods relevant to some conception of distributional justice. The examples in the present text will all be taken from the distribution of income for the simple reason that such data are the most readily available. The variable to be studied will sometimes be called resources, sometimes income.
