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Forecasting Uses of Anticipatory Data: Comment

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1959 73(1), 169
Journal Article Forecasting Uses of Anticipatory Data: Comment Get access W. H. Locke Anderson W. H. Locke Anderson Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 73, Issue 1, February 1959, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883831 Published: 01 February 1959

Are Social Indifference Curves Convex?

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1959 73(3), 485
Introduction, 485. — Samuelson's postulate on social indifference curves, 486. — Importance to it of the concept of diminishing marginal rates of substitution, 486. — Assumption that it reflects the prevaijing egalitarian ethic and the concept of ' diminishing marginal utility, 487. — In fact it has little to do with “egalitarianism” and is much more closely related to “moderation,” 489. — Model showing Samuelson's postulate and some of the cases in which it may not hold, 489. — The problem of convexity and the relationship between “social” and “community” indifference curves, 495.