We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...

This paper addresses the robust counterparts of optimization problems containing sums of maxima of linear functions and proposes several reformulations. These problems include many practical problems, e.g. problems with sums of absolute values, and arise when taking the robust counterpart of a...

An inequality for a normalised isotonic linear functional of Grüss type and particular cases for integrals and norms are established. Applications in obtaining a counterpart for the Cauchy-Buniakowski-Schwartz inequality for functionals and Jessen's inequality for convex functions are also given