scholarly journals Darwin and Inequality

Substantia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Bonatti
Keyword(s):  
Gini Index ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Tierra Del Fuego ◽  
Index Of Inequality ◽  
Primitive State ◽  
Strong Inequality

Charles Darwin  during his travels on the Beagle  noted the wretched primitive state of natives from Tierra del Fuego. He attributed it to their being egalitarians and to the lack of a leader among them. The Gini Index of inequality  suggests strong inequality today in the richest, more developed countries. The paper discusses whether equality and civilization are really incompatible.

Dispersion, Asymmetry and the Gini Index of Inequality

1987 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. M. Berrebi ◽  
Jacques Silber
Keyword(s):  
Gini Index ◽  
Index Of Inequality

Jemmy Button

1987 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Toumey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Tierra Del Fuego ◽  
South American ◽  
Evolutionary Thought ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
Naval Officers

Jemmy Button was an Indian of Tierra del Fuego who inadvertently inspired four generations of nineteenth-century English missionaries to risk their earthly lives to save his eternal soul. These earnest evangelicals made five expeditions to Jemmy's South American homeland to make Christians of him and his countrymen. One of these ventures was an embarrassing fiasco, another ended in death by starvation, and a third led to a treacherous massacre.This young Indian's unintended influence also touched evolutionary thought. Jemmy Button was a friend and companion to Charles Darwin on the famous voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Jemmy's versatile personality was intriguing to Darwin. He could be a naked Indian hunter when in Tierra del Fuego, and a foppish English gentleman when in the company of British naval officers. His ability to change like this inspired Darwin's earliest written reflections on the human capacity to progress from savagery to civilization.

scholarly journals Decomposition of Mehran and Piesch inequality measures by factor components and their application to the distribution of per capita household income in Brazil

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Military Personnel ◽  
Coefficient Of Variation ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Gini Index ◽  
Concentration Ratio ◽  
Inequality Decomposition ◽  
Inequality Measures ◽  
Decomposition Procedure ◽  
Index Of Inequality ◽  
Per Capita

Inequality decomposition by factor components is extended to the Mehran and Piesch indices, comparing them with the decomposition of the Gini index, the squared coefficient of variation and the Theil's T coefficient. The decomposition procedure is applied to the distribution of per capita household income in Brazil in 1999, considering six components: earnings of civil servants and military personnel, earnings of other employees, earnings of self-employed workers, earnings of employers, pensions and, finally, all other incomes. One of the results is that for all the five measures used, the concentration ratio of pensions is higher than the overall index of inequality, indicating that this component is contributing to the increase in income inequality.

scholarly journals MODEL ANALYSIS OF INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD COUNTRIES

2018 ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Olha Kovalchuk ◽  
Nataliia Strelbitska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Graph Classification ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
Index Of Inequality ◽  
High Level ◽  
Medium Method

The article discusses the possibilities of use of classical instruments of analytical methods and data mining methods for global sustainability modelling. To divide countries into groups according to the indicators that are traditionally allocated for sustainability studying, it is carried out the cluster analysis by k-medium method, which resulted in 2 clusters. The first cluster includes economically developed industrialized countries. A high level of social performance and a low level of inequality of outcomes characterize them. At the same time, these countries have high rank of corruption and low Gini Index. There are low social standards, but significantly lower rank of corruption and footprint than in developed countries in the countries of the second cluster. However, the index of inequality of outcomes is three times higher than in the countries included in the first cluster. The tree graph classification of the countries of the world has been constructed on the basis of indicators of sustainable development. The computer models, which are presented in this paper, aim to solve the main problems of sustainable development. They can also be applicable in many other fields, including international relations, economics, and management systems.

Can we Measure Inequalities without Measuring Equalities?

2008 ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Stéphane Mussard
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Inference ◽  
Gini Index ◽  
Income Source ◽  
Index Of Inequality

The purpose of this article is to show that the Gini index of equality is decomposable: (i) both by subgroup and income source and (ii) into a parametric configuration permitting statistical inference on equality components. We demonstrate that the Gini index of equality decompositions imply those of the Gini index of inequality. These results suggest that the use of the Gini index of equality decompositions yields the contribution of each income source to the within-group equality and to the between-group equality. The interpretation of the decomposed inequalities must be done with respect to those of equalities and vice versa.

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