Problematizing labour -- Problematizing information -- Labour productivity -- Babbage and the birth of digital technology -- From machines to the universal machine -- Political economy : value and labour -- The probabilistic approach to economic variables -- The statistical mechanics of money --...

This paper proposes the κ-generalized distribution as a model for describing the distribution and dispersion of income within a population. Formulas for the shape, moments and standard tools for inequality measurement–such as the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient–are given. A method for...