Axiomatic Approach to Measuring the Value of Languages

Jorge Alcalde-Unzu, Juan Moreno-Ternero and Shlomo Weber ()
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Jorge Alcalde-Unzu: Universidad Pública de Navarra, Department of Economics and INARBE
Shlomo Weber: New Uzbekistan University

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language, 2026, pp 127-143 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We survey the literature on assessing the value of a language, with a special emphasis on the axiomatic approach. We also cover a wide range of empirical applications and policy decisions in which these measures can be useful.

Keywords: Value of a language; Communicative benefits; Measure; Axioms; Characterization; Subsidizing language education; Selecting official languages; Promoting local languages; Partial knowledge of languages; Language acquisition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-88240-1_5

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