Search Results - subject:"Cardinal Utility"

Moral economics

Bowles, Samuel - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 44 (2023) 2, pp. 151-160

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The hedonic theory of taxation : an application to the U.S. income tax

Vitaliano, Donald F. - In: Public finance and management : PFM : an official … 18 (2018) 3, pp. 251-264

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How Cardinal Utility Entered Economic Analysis, 1909-1944

Moscati, Ivan - 2013

institutional aspects that informed the discussions leading to the definition of the current notion of cardinal utility as utility …. In opposition to existing narratives, the paper shows that cardinal utility entered economic analysis between 1909 and …

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How cardinal utility entered economic analysis, 1909-1944

Moscati, Ivan - 2013 - Final draft: July 2013

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Multiutility representations for incomplete difference preorders

Pivato, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

sufficient conditions for a difference preorder to be representable by a family of cardinal utility functions which take values …

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How cardinal utility entered economic analysis during the Ordinal RevolutionLength: 31 pages

Moscati, Ivan - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria - 2012

The paper shows that cardinal utility entered economic analysis during the Ordinal Revolution initiated by Pareto and … not, as many popular histories of utility theory assume, before it. Cardinal utility was the outcome of a discussion begun … period contributed to it, with Samuelson in particular playing a pivotal role in defining and popularizing cardinal utility …

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Production and Conflict in Risky Elections

Hausken, Kjell; Ncube, Mthuli - Handelshøgskolen, Universitetet i Stavanger - 2012

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Income taxation and the choice of the tax rate schedule : sacrifice principles and "just" tax rates

Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2011

In the history of economic thoughts the problem of a "just" tax rate structure has played an important role. The paper reconsiders the discussions of the last two centuries and sheds additional light on the concrete tax schedules using the more recent methods of tax theory. Even if the...

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Income taxation and the choice of the tax rate schedule: Sacrifice principles and "just" tax rates

Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2011

In the history of economic thoughts the problem of a just tax rate structure has played an important role. The paper reconsiders the discussions of the last two centuries and sheds additional light on the concrete tax schedules using the more recent methods of tax theory. Even if the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282649

Social choice with approximate interpersonal comparison of welfare gains

Pivato, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Suppose it is possible to make approximate interpersonal comparisons of welfare gains and losses. Thus, if w, x, y, and z are personal psychophysical states (each encoding all ethically relevant information about the physical and mental state of a person), then it sometimes possible to say,...

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