Non-Paternalism and the Basic Theorems of Welfare Economics

G. C. Archibald, David Donaldson

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique · 1976 · 63 citations · 17 references

Concepts

Abstract

duals must respect each others' tastes. The force of 2 is that individuals may entertain almost any distributional preferences. It is shown that while all Paretooptima are competitive equilibria, not all competitive equilibria are Paretooptima. The standard theorems of demand theory are shown to be consistent with

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