Inequality aversion and separability in social risk evaluation

Economic Theory

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 675-692

  Fleurbaey, Marc ^a   Zuber, Stéphane ^b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centre universitaire des Saints Pères   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ex post equity; Independence of the utilities of the dead; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891160263     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-012-0730-2     Document Type: Article

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