Journal Article Capital Taxes, the Redistribution of Wealth and Individual Savings Get access A. B. Atkinson A. B. Atkinson St John's College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 38, Issue 2, April 1971, Pages 209–227, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296780 Published: 01 April 1971

A. B. Atkinson, N. H. Stern; Pigou, Taxation and Public Goods12, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 41, Issue 1, 1 January 1974, Pages 119–128, https://doi.

The literature on inequality measurement has been largely concerned with single-dimensioned indicators. This paper explores some of the issues which arise when there are several dimensions to inequality, and these are not readily reduced to a single index, concentrating particularly on the two-dimensioned case. We make use of results on multi-variate stochastic dominance in portfolio theory, extending these and applying them to the measurement of inequality. The use of the dominance conditions is illustrated by an application to the international distribution of income and life expectancy.