Measuring social welfare: Application of social choice theory

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-15

  Clarke, Matthew ^a   Islam, Sardar M N ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; GDP; Social choice; Systems analysis; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037345592     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-5357(03)00010-6     Document Type: Article

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