Welfare Economics

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Welfare Economics.

• Atkinson index — An inequality measure equal to the proportional mean income society could forgo while retaining the same equally distributed equivalent welfare at a chosen inequality-aversion parameter.
• Compensation principle — A welfare-economic decision rule favoring a change when its gainers could hypothetically compensate its losers and still retain a gain.