• Title of article

    About the right weights of the social welfare function when needs differ

  • Author/Authors

    Alain Trannoy، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    383
  • To page
    387
  • Abstract
    When equivalence scales are used to compute the well-being of individuals, using them as weights has been proposed by Ebert. The criticism against this method, on the grounds that it does not respect anonymity, vanishes in the standard microeconomic setting
  • Keywords
    Social welfare , Equivalence scale , Weights , Indirect utility function , Anonymity
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    435315