IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/metron/v82y2024i3d10.1007_s40300-024-00279-2.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Gini on mutability

Author

Listed:
  • Lidia Ceriani

    (Georgetown University)

  • Paolo Verme

    (Paolo Verme Universitá di BolognaVia Zamboni)

Abstract

In 1912, Corrado Gini published a book in Italian entitled “Variabilità e Mutabilità” (Variability and Mutability). The first part of the book on Variability describes for the first time what became known as the Gini index for the measurement of inequality. Much less known is the second part of the book on Mutability—the study of measures of variability applied to qualitative series—most likely because the content of this part of the book was never published in English. This paper provides for the first time an abridged and commented translation of this second part of the book. We show that it amounts to a full treaty of Mutability measures predating the development of this literature by almost 40 years.

Suggested Citation

  • Lidia Ceriani & Paolo Verme, 2024. "Gini on mutability," METRON, Springer;Sapienza Università di Roma, vol. 82(3), pages 269-292, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:metron:v:82:y:2024:i:3:d:10.1007_s40300-024-00279-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s40300-024-00279-2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s40300-024-00279-2
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s40300-024-00279-2?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:metron:v:82:y:2024:i:3:d:10.1007_s40300-024-00279-2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.