There are two distinct "Scandinavian consensus" approaches to public good supply, both based on agents' willingness to pay. A Wicksell-Foley public competitive equilibrium arises from a negative consensus in which no change of public environment, together with associated taxes and subsidies...

October 1997 (Now published: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 100 (1998), 11--32.) <p> There are two distinct "Scandinavian consensus" approaches to public good supply, both based on agents' willingness to pay.  A Wicksell--Foley public competitive equilibrium arises from a negative consensus in...</p>

This paper presents a characterization of a welfare index for the evaluation of primary goods (to be understood as those goods that all agents should enjoy equally). The welfare associated with a given distribution of n primary goods among m agents is measured as the sum of n real-valued...