On Interpersonal Comparability and Social Welfare Orderings

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DOI10.2307/1912347zbMath0406.90002OpenAlexW2018427424MaRDI QIDQ4193216

Louis Gevers

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1912347




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