THE DETERMINATION OF MANY-COMMODITY PREFERENCE SCALES BY TWO-COMMODITY COMPARISONS,

Abstract

It is the purpose of the paper to show that, under the assumptions usually made in economic literature, the determination of a preference scale relating to many commodities can always be accomplished by means of comparisons involving the variation of only two commodities at a time.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 03, 1948
Accession Number
AD0603810

Entities

People

  • J. W. T. Youngs
  • K. J. Arrow

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Commodities
  • Literature

Fields of Study

  • Economics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Industrial Economics