What is a commodity? Two axiomatic answers

Economic Theory

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 429-437

  Sprumont, Yves ^a  

^a Université Laval   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardinal measure; Commodity; Ordinal measure; Preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742271192     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-003-0379-y     Document Type: Article

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