 On the Resolution of Conflicts by CompensationU. Krause Chapter 6 in Nicholas Kaldor and Mainstream Economics, 1991, pp 101-113 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The purpose of the present paper is to embed the compensation principle due to N. Kaldor into some more general framework so as to discuss conflict resolving by compensation for social as well as individual decision making. Kaldor’s intention in (1939) was to show that the classical argument for free trade does not require interpersonal comparison of utilities. In section 2 Kaldor’s compensation principle is presented in detail together with some of its criticism. In contrast to the criticism the formulation of Kaldor’s principle as given in this section does not involve utilities. This formulation then leads to a general concept of compensation presented in section 3. Compensation thereby is described by an equivalence relation on the set of alternatives. A conflict among alternatives occurs when there are (at least two) preferences that point in different directions. The conflict resolution hoped for is portrayed by the factor relation obtained by taking the conjunction of the preferences modulo the equivalence relation. Keywords: Equivalence Relation; Factor Relation; Social Choice; Real Income; Multicriteria Decision (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-10947-0_6 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10947-0_6 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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