. Income in the United States, its amount and distribution, 1909-1919. vary with incomes, all closely ap-proximate straight lines having nearly uniformslopes. In the first flush of his enthusiasm he evenimplied that his investigations indicated the im-possibility of altering substantially the propor-tions in which income is distributed among in-dividuals—the type of this distribution in all coun-tries at all stages of social development seemedto be immutable. Charts 27 and 28 illustrate Paretos device^ andshow roughly in what degree the American in-come-tax returns for 1913 to 1918 conform to
. Income in the United States, its amount and distribution, 1909-1919. vary with incomes, all closely ap-proximate straight lines having nearly uniformslopes. In the first flush of his enthusiasm he evenimplied that his investigations indicated the im-possibility of altering substantially the propor-tions in which income is distributed among in-dividuals—the type of this distribution in all coun-tries at all stages of social development seemedto be immutable. Charts 27 and 28 illustrate Paretos device^ andshow roughly in what degree the American in-come-tax returns for 1913 to 1918 conform to hisstraight-line law. Anyone accustomed to useonly charts dra\\ai on a natural scale may be in-clined to say that the conformity is close. But ^Pareto charted cumulative data while we are charting non-cumulative data. However, it may be mathematically proven thatif the cumulative distribution be a straight line on the doublelogarithmic scale, the non-cumulative distribution will also be astraight line on that scale. 120 INCOME IN THE UNITED STATES ,>g ^ 3; »5. OOovaJ oooof -ooo; - oi)( -Of / DISTRIBUTION OF NATIONAL INCOME 121
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