Food as a Necessity Good and Food Subsidies.

In this article, we extend a benchmark model to allow for a non‐welfarist social welfare function (SWF) that treats food as a necessity good rather than a regular good, while preserving the assumption that individuals are rational. We show that the widespread use of food subsidies by governments wor...

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Publicado en:	Kyklos Vol. 78; no. 4; pp. 1457 - 1463
Autor principal:	An, Zhiyong
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Nov2025
Materias:	Subsidies Basic needs Income redistribution Public welfare Consumption tax Agricultural subsidies Groceries
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