Scientists studying the economics of a country, community, or group of people are often interestedin the distribution of wealth, where wealth is understood to mean the income or the personal assetsof individual households. A powerful tool for illustrating how wealth is distributed across a societyis the Lorenz curve (invented by the American economist Max Otto Lorenz in 1905).A typical Lorenz curve is given by y = L(x), where 0 < x < 1 and 0 < y < 1. The variableI represents the fraction of all households in the society and y = L(x) represents the fraction ofthe total wealth that is owned by the fraction x of the society. For example, for the Lorenz curveshown in Figure 1, we see that L(0.5) = 0.2, which means that 0.5 (50%) of the society owns 0.2(20%) of the wealth.bottombotomy A1-Line of perfectequality0.8 of householdscontrol 0.6 ofthe wealth.Lorenz curve0.5 of householdscontrol 0.2 ofthe wealth.0.2B0.50.8 a1 1Fraction of HouseholdsFigure IFraction of Total Wealth 3. Interpret the point (0.9,0.7) in two ways, in terms of richest and poorest.

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