Bidimensional Inequalities with an Ordinal Variable

Nicolas Gravel () and Patrick Moyes ()
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Patrick Moyes: Université de Bordeaux and CNRS

A chapter in Social Ethics and Normative Economics, 2011, pp 101-127 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The normative foundations of the comparison of distributions of a single attribute between a given number of individuals are by now well-established. They originate in the equivalence between four plausible answers to the question of when a distribution x can be considered normatively better than a distribution y.

Keywords: Utility Function; Marginal Utility; Elementary Operation; Unanimity Rule; Lorenz Dominance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17807-8_4

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