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The news of the death of welfare economics is greatly exaggerated

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Volume (Year): 25 (2005)
Issue (Month): 2 (December)
Pages: 381-418
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  4. Gravel, Nicolas, 1994. "On the Difficulty of Combining Actual and Potential Criteria for an Increase in Social Welfare," Discussion Papers (IRES - Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales) 1994009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
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  6. Mayston, David J., 1982. "The generation of a social welfare function under ordinal preferences," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 3(2), pages 109-129, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Blackorby, C. & Donaldson, D. & Weymark, J.A., 1990. "A Welfarist Proof Of Arrow'S Theorem," UBC Departmental Archives 90-16, UBC Department of Economics.
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  8. Pollak, Robert A, 1979. "Bergson-Samuelson Social Welfare Functions and the Theory of Social Choice," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 93(1), pages 73-90, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  10. Marc Fleurbaey & Francois Maniquet, 2002. "Fair Income Tax," Economics Working Papers 0021, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science. [Downloadable!]
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  11. Suzumura Kotaro, 1998. "Paretian Welfare Judgements and Bergsonian Social Choice," Discussion Paper Series a341, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
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  12. Pazner, Elisha A & Schmeidler, David, 1978. "Egalitarian Equivalent Allocations: A New Concept of Economic Equity," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 92(4), pages 671-87, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  14. P. Mongin, 1998. "Does optimization imply rationality ?," THEMA Working Papers 98-17, THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
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  15. M. Fleurbaey & F. Maniquet, 2008. "Fair social orderings," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 34(1), pages 25-45, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  16. Atkinson, Anthony B, 2001. "The Strange Disappearance of Welfare Economics," Kyklos, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 54(2-3), pages 193-206.
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  19. Sen, Amartya K, 1971. "Choice Functions and Revealed Preference," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 38(115), pages 307-17, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Marc Fleurbaey, 2007. "Social choice and the indexing dilemma," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer, vol. 29(4), pages 633-648, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Mongin, Philippe, 2006. "Normes et jugements de valeur en économie normative," Les Cahiers de Recherche 858, HEC Paris. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Marc Fleurbaey, 2004. "Two Criteria for Social Decisions," Economics Papers 2004-W27, Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. [Downloadable!]
  4. Marc Fleurbaey, 2006. "Health, equity and social welfare," Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, ADRES, issue 83-84, pages 02, Juillet-D. [Downloadable!]
  5. Allan M. Feldman & Roberto Serrano, 2007. "Arrow\'s impossibility theorem: Two simple single-profile versions," Working Papers 2007-07, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA) Ciencias Sociales. [Downloadable!]
  6. Roberto Serrano & Allan M. Feldman, 2007. "Arrow’S Impossibility Theorem: Preference Diversity In A Single-Profile World," Working Papers wp2007_0710, CEMFI. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Allan M Feldman & Roberto Serrano, 2008. "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: Preference Diversity in a Single-Profile World," Working Papers 2008-8, Brown University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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