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Intermediate microeconomics : A modern approach
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The Varian approach as mentioned in this paper gives students tools they can use on exams, in the rest of their classes, and in their careers after graduation, and is still the most modern presentation of the subject.Abstract:
This best-selling text is still the most modern presentation of the subject. The Varian approach gives students tools they can use on exams, in the rest of their classes, and in their careers after graduation.read more
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Preferences and person trade-offs: forcing consistency or inconsistency in health-related quality of life measures?
TL;DR: It is proved that the supposed 'logical' relationship need not hold for logically consistent, rational individuals, and it is shown that the relationship will in fact hold only for a particular class of social value functions exhibiting two characteristics that may not be consistent with the preferences of some participants.
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Simple Utility Functions with Giffen Demand
TL;DR: In this article, simple utility functions with the Giffen property are presented: locally, the demand curve for a good is upward sloping and the utility functions represent continuous, monotone, convex preferences.
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The Human Development Index Adjusted for Efficient Resource Utilization
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defined the concept of Pareto-Koopmans efficiency as the ability of each country to transform the minimum possible units of its own resources into the maximum possible levels of the three outcomes.
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Globally Optimal Distributed Power Control for Nonconcave Utility Maximization
TL;DR: This algorithm provably converges to the set of global optimal solutions despite the non-convexity of the power control problem, and makes no stringent assumptions on the system utility functions.
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Consensus In Group Decision Making Under Linguistic Assessments
TL;DR: A method for experts to modify their evaluations to improve the consensus level is provided, and an optimization method to maximize two types of consensus under a budget constraint is developed.