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Bidimensional Inequalities with an Ordinal Variable

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The normative foundations of the comparison of distributions of a single attribute between a given number of individuals are by now well-established. They originate in the equivalence between four plausible answers to the question of when a distribution x can be considered normatively better than a distribution y.

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  1. GREQAM-IDEP, Université de la Méditerranée, Centre de la Vieille Charité, 13002, Marseille, France

    Nicolas Gravel

  2. GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113), Université de Bordeaux and CNRS, Avenue Léon Duguit, 33608, Pessac, France

    Patrick Moyes

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    Marc Fleurbaey

  2. , CREM, UMR-CNRS 6211, University of Caen, rue Claude Bloch 17, Caen Cedex, 14032, France

    Maurice Salles

  3. , Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Place 2301, Nashville, 37215-1819, Tennessee, USA

    John A. Weymark

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Gravel, N., Moyes, P. (2011). Bidimensional Inequalities with an Ordinal Variable. In: Fleurbaey, M., Salles, M., Weymark, J. (eds) Social Ethics and Normative Economics. Studies in Choice and Welfare. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17807-8_4

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