On diversity and freedom of choice

Mathematical social sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 123-130

  Pattanaik, Prasanta K ^a   Xu, Yongsheng ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Andrew Young Sch Plcy Studs   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D00; D11; D63; D71; Diversity; Freedom of choice; Opportunity set; Ranking; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000232098     PISSN: 01654896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4896(99)00043-8     Document Type: Article

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