Making social trade-offs among lives, disabilities, and cost

DOI10.1007/BF01064182MaRDI QIDQ1342889zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Robert F. Bordley

Publication date 9 February 1995

Published in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

utilitylife expectancyrisksocial welfarediscountingindex of community welfarequality-adjusted life-years index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) Trade models (91B60)

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• Advances in prospect theory: cumulative representation of uncertainty
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