Welfare inequalities and Rawlsian axiomatics

DOI10.1007/BF00135080zbMath0364.90015MaRDI QIDQ1241163

Amartya Sen

Publication date: 1976

Published in: Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Utility theory (91B16)

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