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The paper investigates Dennis Robertson's effort to defend the Cambridge utilitarian tradition against the “new welfare economics”, developed in the 1930s and 1940s on the basis of Lionel Robbins's influential criticism of the scientific legitimacy of interpersonal comparisons of utility. It...
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The enlargement of the general-equilibrium structure to allow default subject to penalties results in a construction of a simple mechanism for selecting a unique competitive equilibrium. We consider economies for which a common credit money can be applied to uniquely select any competitive...
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This paper examines the marginal utility as a theory of value in comparison with the theories which preceded it. It … compares in detail the utility theory with the predominant theory of value of classical economics, a cost theory which saw … marginal theory did more than just revolutionize the then current economic thinking. It was able to hark back to the best of …
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We estimate how the marginal utility of consumption varies with health. To do so, we develop a simple model in which the impact of health on the marginal utility of consumption can be estimated from data on permanent income, health, and utility proxies. We estimate the model using the Health and...
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Recently Cherchye et al. (2011) reformulated the Walrasian equilibrium inequalities, introduced by Brown and Matzkin (1996), as an integer programming problem and proved that solving the Walrasian equilibrium inequalities is NP-hard. Brown and Shannon (2002) derived an equivalent system of...
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