On the Aggregation of Money Measures of Well-Being in Applied Welfare Economics

This article investigates the properties, good and bad, of social evaluations based on four money measures of well-being or changes in well-being: compensating variations, money metrics, extended money metrics, and welfare ratios. Consistency of social rankings (transitivity, asymmetry of preference...

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Main Author: David Donaldson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 1992-07-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30731