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Preface.Acknowledgments.1. Introduction.1.1 Our Aims.1.2 Types ofEconomic Size Distributions.1.3 A Brief Historical Sketch of the Models forStudying Economic Size Distributions.1.4 Stochastic Process Models for SizeDistributions.2. General Principles.2.1 Some Concepts from Economics.2.2Hazard Rates, Mean Excess Functions, and Tailweight.2.3 Systems ofDistributions.2.4 Generating Systems of Income Distributions.3. ParetoDistributions.3.1 Definitions.3.2 History and Genesis.3.3 Moments and OtherBasic Properties.3.4 Characterizations.3.5 Lorenz Curve and InequalityMeasures.3.6 Estimation.3.7 Empirical Results.3.8 Stoppa Distributions.3.9Conic Distribution.3.10 A "log-adjusted" Pareto Distribution.3.11Stable Distributions.3.12 Further Pareto-type Distributions.4. LognormalDistribution.4.1 Definition.4.2 History and Genesis.4.3 Moments and OtherBasic Properties.4.4 Characterizations.4.5 Lorenz Curve and InequalityMeasures.4.6 Estimation.4.7 Three-and four-parameter LognormalDistributions.4.8 Multivariate Lognormal Distribution.4.9 EmpiricalResults.4.10 Generalized Lognormal Distribution.4.11 An AsymmetricLog-Laplace Distribution.4.12 Related Distributions.5. Gamma-type SizeDistributions.5.1 Generalized Gamma Distribution.5.2 Gamma Distribution.5.3Log-gamma Distribution.5.4 Inverse Gamma (Vinci) Distribution.5.5 WeibullDistribution.5.6 Log-Gompertz Distribution.6. Beta-type SizeDistributions.6.1 (Generalized) Beta Distribution of the Second Kind.6.2Singh-Maddala Distribution.6.3 Dagum Distribution.6.4 Fisk (log-logistic) andLomax Distributions.6.5 (Generalized) Beta Distribution of the First Kind.7.Miscellaneous Size Distributions.7.1 Benini Distribution.7.2 DavisDistribution.7.3 Champernowne Distribution.7.4 BenktanderDistributions.Appendix A. Biographies.A.1 Vilfredo Federico Domaso Pareto,Marchese di Parigi.A.2 Rodolfo Benini.A.3 Max Otto Lorenz.A.4 CorradoGini.A.5 Luigi Amoroso.A.6 Raffaele D'Addario.A.7 Robert Pierre LouisGibrat.A.8 David Gawen Champernowne.Appendix B. Data on SizeDistributions.Appendix C. Size Distributions.List ofSymbols.References.Author Index.Subject Index.