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Robert Inman presents a most interesting model of alternative educational policies, and has made believable estimates of the preferences of some groups who might in fact have to take these policy decisions. He goes on to select a list of policy alternatives to be presented to policy-makers, his selection criterion being expected utility, i.e. utility averaged over the population of possible governments. I do not believe that this procedure makes sense. My remarks will be devoted to explaining why.
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© 1981 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague
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Mirrlees, J.A. (1981). Comments on R. P. Inman. In: Bowman, M.J. (eds) Collective Choice in Education. Studies in Public Choice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7398-5_8
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