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dc.contributor.authorBrun, Bernt Christian
dc.contributor.authorTungodden, Bertil
dc.date.accessioned2006-09-06T06:31:57Z
dc.date.available2006-09-06T06:31:57Z
dc.date.issued1998-11
dc.identifier.issn0804-6824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/163300
dc.description.abstractRawls (1971,1993) suggests that interpersonal comparisons of well-being should be based on a primary goods index, but it is well-known that in general this approach is not compatible with the Pareto principle. This is the indexing impasse. Sen (1985,1991) argues that this is partly due to the fact that the approach does not take note of the citizen’s orderings of these bundles of valuable objects. He suggests an «intersection approach», which is an incomplete approach to interpersonal comparisons based on judgements that are shared implications of the relevant set of weighting schemes. In this paper, we show that «the intersection approach» does not provide any solution to the indexing impasse. Unless the individuals have identical preferences, «the intersection approach» is incompatible with the Pareto principle.en
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dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherNorwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscussion paperen
dc.relation.ispartofseries1998:24en
dc.subjectprimary goodsen
dc.subjectfunctioningsen
dc.subjectindexing impasseen
dc.subjectintersection approachen
dc.titleThe indexing impasse : is "the intersection approach" a solution?en
dc.typeWorking paperen


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