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Representing an ordering when the population varies

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This note describes a domain of distributions of wellbeing, in which different distributions may have different populations. It proves a representation theorem for an ordering defined on this domain.

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  1. University of Oxford and Corpus Christi College, Oxford Ox1 4JF, UK (e-mail: john.broome@philosophy.ox.ac.uk), , , , , , GB

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Received: 19 September 2001/Accepted: 4 March 2002

I am extremely grateful to Sarah Moss for very helpful comments, and also to the journal's editor and referees. This note was written while I was a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

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Broome, J. Representing an ordering when the population varies. Soc Choice Welfare 20, 243–246 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003550200175

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