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On the Resolution of Conflicts by Compensation

In: Nicholas Kaldor and Mainstream Economics

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  • U. Krause

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The purpose of the present paper is to embed the compensation principle due to N. Kaldor into some more general framework so as to discuss conflict resolving by compensation for social as well as individual decision making. Kaldor’s intention in (1939) was to show that the classical argument for free trade does not require interpersonal comparison of utilities. In section 2 Kaldor’s compensation principle is presented in detail together with some of its criticism. In contrast to the criticism the formulation of Kaldor’s principle as given in this section does not involve utilities. This formulation then leads to a general concept of compensation presented in section 3. Compensation thereby is described by an equivalence relation on the set of alternatives. A conflict among alternatives occurs when there are (at least two) preferences that point in different directions. The conflict resolution hoped for is portrayed by the factor relation obtained by taking the conjunction of the preferences modulo the equivalence relation.

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  • U. Krause, 1991. "On the Resolution of Conflicts by Compensation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Edward J. Nell & Willi Semmler (ed.), Nicholas Kaldor and Mainstream Economics, chapter 6, pages 101-113, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-10947-0_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10947-0_6
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