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Rationalizable Solution to Pure Population Problems

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Blackorby, C.
Bossert, W.
Donaldson, D.

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In pure population problems, a single resource is to be distributed equally among teh agents in a society, and the social planner chooses populations size(s) and per-capita consumption(s) for each resource constraint and set of feasible population sizes within the domain solution. This paper shows that a weak condition regarding the possible choice of a zero population is necessary and sufficient for the rationalizability of a solution by a welfarist social ordering.

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Paper provided by UBC Department of Economics in its series UBC Departmental Archives with number 97-16.

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Date of creation: 1997
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Keywords: SOCIAL CHOICE ; POPULATION;

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  1. Bossert, W., 1995. "Choices, Consequences, and Rationality," Working Papers 9501, University of Waterloo, Department of Economics.
  2. Blackorby, Charles & Bossert, Walter & Donaldson, David, 1995. "Intertemporal Population Ethics: Critical-Level Utilitarian Principles," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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  3. Blackorby, Charles & Bossert, Walter & Donaldson, David, 1997. "Birth-Date Dependent Population Ethics: Critical-Level Principles," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 77(2), pages 260-284, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Blackorby, C. & Bossert, W. & Donaldson, D., 1993. "Multi-Valued demand and Rational Choice in the Two-Commodity Case," UBC Departmental Archives 93-32, UBC Department of Economics.
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  5. Bossert, Walter, 1994. "Rational choice and two-person bargaining solutions," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 23(6), pages 549-563, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  6. Peters Hans & Wakker Peter, 1994. "WARP Does Not Imply SARP for More Than Two Commodities," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 62(1), pages 152-160, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  10. Blackorby, Charles & Donaldson, David, 1984. "Social criteria for evaluating population change," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 25(1-2), pages 13-33, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  11. Bossert, Walter, 1993. "Continuous Choice Functions and the Strong Axiom of Revealed Preference," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 3(2), pages 379-85, April.
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  12. Ng, Yew-Kwang, 1986. "Social criteria for evaluating population change: An alternative to the Blackorby-Donaldson criterion," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 375-381, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  17. Blackorby, Charles & Bossert, Walter & Donaldson, David, 1996. "Leximin population ethics," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 31(2), pages 115-131, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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