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Intertemporal Social Evaluation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)
Intertemporal social-evaluation rules provide us with social criteria that can be used to assess the relative desirability of utility distributions across generations. The trade-offs between the well-being of different ...
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 ...
Dynamic Measures of Individual Deprivation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)
We introduce and axiomatize a one-parameter class of individual deprivation measures. Motivated by a suggestion of Runciman, we modify Yitzhaki’s index by multiplying it by a function that is interpreted as measuring the ...
Rational Choice on Arbitrary Domains: A Comprehensive Treatment
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)
The rationalizability of a choice function on arbitrary domains by means of a transitive relation has been analyzed thoroughly in the literature. Moreover, characterizations of various versions of consistent rationalizability ...