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What is a commodity? Two axiomatic answers

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posted on 2004-02-01, 00:00 authored by Yves SprumontYves Sprumont
What is a commodity? Two axiomatic answers

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Journal

Economic Theory

Volume

23

Pagination

429-437

ISSN

0938-2259

eISSN

1432-0479

Notes

We identify conditions under which preferences over subsets of a consumption world can be reduced to preferences over bundles of "commodities". We distinguish ordinal bundles, whose coordinates are defined up to monotone transformations, from cardinal bundles, whose coordinates are defined up to positive linear transformations. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2004 ; Commodity, Preference, Ordinal measure, Cardinal measure.

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C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

2

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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