A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2011.10.024MaRDI QIDQ429147zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oded Stark, Martyna Kobus, Marcin Jakubek

Publication date 26 June 2012

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/117257/files/DP156.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

utilitarianismincome equalityrelative incomesocial welfare maximization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Welfare economics (91B15)

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