The ugly truth about consumer's surplus
Tóm tắt
30. We have seen that most of the heresies rejected in Mishan have at least an element of truth in them formal or real. Either the conflict is apparent, not real; or Mishan is incorrect in his understanding of the problems which all relate to interpretation of measurement, and are nothing to do with the rational status of ordinalism. From a practical point of view the following propositions may be asserted:
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