Economics and information theory

TL;DR: This article examined the patterns of the major metal consumption in the world and seven particular regions and analyzes the disarray of metals consumption, concluding that the apparent disarray in metals consumption is not in fact real.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a robust estimation of two income distribution models using Spanish data for the period 1990-91 under three different concepts of income, and the effect on the estimates of the Theil index due to the choice of the definition of income and of the estimation method is analyzed.

TL;DR: This article used data envelopment analysis to measure the relative efficiency among Indonesia's provinces in using input to produce output over a 20-year period that includes the global economic crisis, and employed the inequality decomposition technique of a Theil's second measure to explore the extent to which the efficiency factor contributes to interprovincial income inequality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the economics of distributional equity and the way general criteria for comparisons of income distribution can be used to inform the analysis of inequality and poverty.