Two variants of Harsanyi's aggregation theorem

Economics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 300-302

  Fleurbaey, Marc ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Harsanyi's theorem; Risk; Social welfare; Utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350617951     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.08.023     Document Type: Article

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