Evolving Preferences and Welfare Economics: The Perspective of Constitutional Political Economy

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 234, Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages 328-349

  Vanberg, Viktor J ^a  

^a Walter Eucken Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constitutional economics; Evolving preferences; Welfare economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966372678     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2014-2-312     Document Type: Article

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