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Consistent Relations
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006)
Consistency, a natural weakening of transitivity introduced in a seminal contribution by Suzumura (1976b), has turned out to be an interesting and promising concept in a variety of areas within economic theory. This paper ...
The Possibility of Ordering Infinite Utility Streams
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2004)
This paper revisits Diamond’s classical impossibility result regarding the ordering of infinite utility streams. We show that if no representability condition is imposed, there do exist strongly Paretian and finitely ...
Population Ethics and the Value of Life
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to prenatal care and the design of aid packages to developing ...