This article proposes a new social welfare measure based on Aristotle's theory of reciprocity. Unlike existing metrics of social welfare, the proposed Aristotelian social welfare function measures ...

A new approach is developed to identify marginal tax reforms for pairs of commodities and to test for the robustness of their impacts on Yaari's dual social welfare functions. The rank-dependent ...

Evaluating climate policy requires a method for navigating trade-offs. The most systematic such method is the ‘social welfare function’ (SWF) approach, which is widely used both in the economic ...

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President Obama demanded and received the resignation of the acting commissioner of the IRS on Wednesday. The agency gave special scrutiny to conservative groups applying for 501(c)(4) status, which ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The inclusiveness of growth depends on the extent of access to economic and social opportunities. This paper applies the ...