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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 21:00:00 EDT
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In article <186@gargoyle.UUCP> carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) writes:

>
>The following is from A. C. Pigou, *The Economics of Welfare*, 4th ed.
>(London: Macmillan, 1948; originally published 1932), p. 89.
>
>	It is evident that any transference of income from a
>	relatively rich man to a relatively poor man of similar
>	temperament, since it enables more intense wants to be
>	satisfied at the expense of less intense wants, must
>	increase the aggregate sum of satisfactions.

Question: according to Pigou, or to Richard Carnes -
does it make a difference to the aggregate sum whether
the transference is voluntary or involuntary ?

		Jan Wasilewsky