Do irrelevant commodities matter?

Econometrica

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1143-1174

  Fleurbaey, Marc ^a,b,c   Tadenuma, Koichi ^d  

^a Centre universitaire des Saints Pères   (France)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c Institut d'Economie Publique   (France)

^d HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Characteristics; Consumer preferences; Functionings; Independence of irrelevant alternatives; Social choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250370547     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00784.x     Document Type: Article

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