Equity and Equality in East and West
结合经济学和社会心理学，提出评估收入分配的公平指数，并用国际数据验证。发现收入差异判断更接近公平指数而非不平等感知，西方比东方感知和偏好更大的不平等，但西方分配被认为更公平。
Combining insights from economics and social psychology, this paper presents indices of equity that can be used for the evaluation of alternative distributions of income. The validity of these indices is investigated using an international data set. It is found that judgments regarding income differences are more closely related to indices of equity than to perceptions of inequality. Furthermore, it is found that greater inequality is perceived and preferred in Western (capitalist) states than in Eastern (former communist) states and that the distribution in the West is considered to be more equitable than in the East. Copyright 1994 by WWZ and Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag AG