What Should we do with Inconsistent, Nonwelfaristic, and Undeveloped Preferences?

Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 103-119

  Johansson Stenman, Olof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Economic assumptions; Environmental goods; Policy recommendations; Public policy; Welfare economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948746618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470693674.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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