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Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme’s paper “The origins of the Gini index: extracts from Variabilità e Mutabilità (1912) by Corrado Gini”

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Lambert, P.J. Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme’s paper “The origins of the Gini index: extracts from Variabilità e Mutabilità (1912) by Corrado Gini”. J Econ Inequal 10, 419–420 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-011-9187-y

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