Advances in Econometrics, Income Distribution and Scientific Methodology Essays in Honor of Camilo Dagum

Articles on econometric methodology with special reference to the quantification of poverty and economic inequality are presented in this book. Poverty and inequality measurement present special problems to the econometrician, and most of these papers analyze how to attack those problems.
The topics and contributions in the book are a very good representation of Camilo Dagum's astounding diversity of interests and overall eclecticism. Several of the authors are leading pioneers in econometric methodology. Several others are pioneers in economic theory and others are the leading applied economists in income distribution analysis in the world. The topics accurately reflect Camilo Dagum's breadth of understanding across varios economic sub-fields, all complex in nature.

I Econometrics Essays.- 1 About the Contribution of Econometrics to the Advancement of Knowledge: The Macroeconomic Relevance of Microeconomic Data.- 2. Two Aspects of the Methodology of Modeling Deterministic Processes and Evaluation.- 3. An Extension of the Gauss-Markov Theorem for Mixed Linear Regression Models with Non-Stationary Stochastic Parameters.- 4. Computation in Macroeconomic Model-Building: Some Historical Aspects.- 5. Measuring Informativeness of Data by Entropy and Variance.- 6. Significance of the Nonuniqueness of Neoclassical Direct Utility Functions Especially When They are Empirically Confirmed.- II Essays on Income Distribution (Empirical).- 7 Welfare Disparity Among Subgroups of Population: The Method of Analysis with an Application.- 8. Measuring Welfare Changes and the Excess Burden of Taxation.- 9. Decomposing the Redistributive Effect of Taxes: New Measures of Vertical Equity and Inequity.- 10. Income Transformation and Income Inequality.- 11. A Note on the Gini Measure for Discrete Distributions.- 12. Distributional Preferences and the Extended Gini Measure of Inequality.- 13. On Some Implications of Dagum’s Interpretation of the Decomposition of the Gini Index by Population Subgroups.- III Essays on Scientific Methodology.- 14. The End of Science.- 15. Statistical Inference and Inductive Prevision.- 16. The Scientific Training.- IV Essays on Income Distribution (Theory).- 17. A Family of Multidimensional Poverty Measures.- 18. Independence and Changes in the Size Distribution of Income.- 19. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Dominance Using Generalized Lorenz Curves.- V Camilo Dagum. Scientific Publications.