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Measuring Economic Insecurity
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-03)
We provide a systematic treatment of the notion of economic insecurity, assuming that an individual’s sentiment of insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations experienced in the past. We think of ...
Rationality, External Norms and the Epistemic Value of Menus
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-06)
Ever since Sen’s (1993; 1997) criticism on the notion of internal consistency or menu independence of choice, there exists a widespread perception that the standard revealed preference approach to the theory of rational ...
Decisive Coalitions and Coherence Properties
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-03)
In a seminal contribution, Hansson has demonstrated that the family of decisive coalitions associated with an Arrovian social welfare function forms an ultrafilter. If the population under consideration is infinite, his ...
Quasi-Transitive and Suzumura Consistent Relations
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-03)
We examine properties of binary relations that complement quasi-transitivity and Suzumura consistency in the sense that they, together with the original axiom(s), are equivalent to transitivity. In general, the conjunction ...
Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-08)
We examine the measurement of multidimensional poverty and material deprivation following the counting approach. In contrast to earlier contributions, dimensions of well-being are not forced to be equally important but ...
Social Choice: Recent Developments
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006)
In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to the fore. ...
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 ...
Domain Closedness Conditions and Rational Choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)
The rationalizability of a choice function on an arbitrary domain under various coherence properties has received a considerable amount of attention both in the long-established and in the recent literature. Because domain ...
Anonymous Single-Profile Welfarism
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2004)
This note reexamines the single-profile approach to social-choice theory. If an alternative is interpreted as a social state of affairs or a history of the world, it can be argued that a multi-profile approach is inappropriate ...
Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2004)
This paper, which is to be published as a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, provides an introduction to social-choice theory with interpersonal comparisons of well-being. We argue that the most promising ...