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Anti-social welfare functions: a reply to Hansen et al.

We could reasonably expect society to give at least the same weight to the marginal utility of the poor as to the rich, and to the marginal utility of the ill as compared to the healthy. Whilst Hansen et al. [Journal of Health Economics (2004)], may be said to link CEA and CBA within a welfarist framework, the assumptions they require are inconsistent with these types of ethical preferences. Th...

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The Hansen Scheme Revisited

In this paper, we present a modification of a closed-loop identification scheme known as the “Hansen scheme”. The advantage of the alternative procedure is that the order of the resulting model is tunable by the user.

On ethics and specific anti-Hansen purism.

One of the most curious objections to the medical usage of the modern and scientific-sounding term "Hansen's disease" is that "Dr. Hansen did not have the disease". But the fact that neither Dr. Parkinson nor Dr. Bright were victims of "their" diseases is conveniently ignored. As it is ignored that Dr. Recklinghausen never had skin tumors and that no malignant mammary "Paget's disease" ever dev...

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