From: David Laibman (dlaibman@SCIENCEANDSOCIETY.COM)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2007 - 16:43:37 EDT
Alejandro, Many thanks. I will check out both Bowen and your paper (my Spanish is not what I wish it were, but I can read, slowly). Best, David Alejandro Agafonow wrote: > > Dear David: > > Howard Bowen, “The Interpretation of Voting in the Allocation of > Economic Resources”, /The Quarterly Journal of Economics/, Vol. 58, Nº > 1 (Nov. 1943). > > The above paper (attached herewith) just could be indirectly useful > for you. Bowen used an interesting way of representing a sort of > demand curves on page 47. He was worried about voting preferences and > represented voters’ preferences over the quantity of public goods, > grouping them by social classes. > > I took the idea translated to the demand of health services, to > represent poor people’s quantity loos of service in case of market > allocation, compared with the equitable rationing by the State. My > interpretation of Bowen’s graph is in: “The Limits of Economic > Efficiency in a Democratic Society” (Spanish), /Revista de Economía > Institucional/, Vol. 9, Nº 16, 2007. www.economiainstitucional.com > <http://www.economiainstitucional.com/> > > I found interesting your conclusion about the neutrality of > microeconomics tools concerning policy conclusions, but concerning > distribution issues it is difficult to say that, because we have > different conclusion if you accept the /law of decreasing marginal > utility of income/ as Arthur Pigou did or if you reject some > assumption of the said law as Lionel Robbins did. > > Best regards, > > Alejandro Agafonow > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Sé un Mejor Amante del Cine > ¿Quieres saber cómo? ¡Deja que otras personas te ayuden! > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/es/tagline/beabetter/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/reto/entretenimiento.html>.
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