Marc Barbut et la "loi de Pareto"

[摘要] Formulated in the late 19 th century, Vilfredo Pareto’s law of income distribution has led to a number of studies by economists, sociologists – and also mathematician. In several articles collected in “La mesure des inégalités”, Marc Barbut examined the mathematical aspects of the distribution of wealth by emphasising the probabilistic character of the Pareto argument. His most important contributions reside in pointing out the impact of Georges Sorel's objections, in showing how Pareto was wrong about the intrinsic parameter of the distribution, as well as in revealing the reasons why Pareto decided to stop working in the direction he had initially taken.

[学科分类] 数学（综合）

[关键词] average man;inequalities;cumulative distribution;probability