Ryan, Matthew - In: Social Choice and Welfare 42 (2014) 1, pp. 193-213
The indirect utility principle provides an instrumentalist basis for ranking opportunity sets, given an underlying preference ranking on alternatives. Opportunity set A is weakly preferred to B if A includes at least one preference-maximising element from <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$A\cup B$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>. We introduce the Plott...</equationsource></inlineequation>