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1989 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Economic Interdependence and Optimum Population: An Examination of Meade’s Objection to the Individual Utility Criterion

verfasst von : John D. Pitchford

Erschienen in: Economic Theory of Optimal Population

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Meade (1955) devoted a chapter of his Trade and Welfare volume to optimum population and optimum saving. In this discussion he finds reasons for abandoning individual welfare as a criterion for optimum population in favour of the use of total utility. His objection to individual, or as he calls it “per caput” utility is worth quoting in full.

Metadaten
Titel
Economic Interdependence and Optimum Population: An Examination of Meade’s Objection to the Individual Utility Criterion
verfasst von
John D. Pitchford
Copyright-Jahr
1989
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50043-5_10