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UNINA9910409663803321 |
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Autore |
Kamaga Kohei |
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Titolo |
Social Welfare Evaluation and Intergenerational Equity [[electronic resource] /] / by Kohei Kamaga |
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Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Development Bank of Japan Research Series, , 2367-0967 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Welfare economics |
Public finance |
Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy |
Public Economics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1 Introduction -- 2 Intragenerational social welfare evaluation -- 3 Intergenerational social welfare evaluation -- 4 Extended anonymity and intergenerational social welfare evaluation -- 5 Intergenerational social welfare evaluation with variable population size -- 6 Conclusion: Further issues -- Index. . |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents a synthesis of recent developments in axiomatic analyses of social welfare evaluation in social choice theory. It covers three different contexts of social welfare evaluation, namely, social welfare evaluation within a generation, intergenerational social welfare evaluation involving infinitely many generations, and intergenerational social welfare evaluation with variable population sizes of generations. Analyzing these three different but related contexts of social welfare evaluation in a unified manner, the book places the emphasis on the close linkage between them and provides readers with new insight regarding the relationship between them. Evaluation criteria discussed in the book are firmly rooted in moral philosophy. Besides the axiomatic analyses of utilitarian and egalitarian evaluation criteria, newly developed results on compromised criteria between the utilitarian and egalitarian evaluation criteria are covered as well. The book is recommended to readers who seek an up-to-date integrated |
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