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Isolation, Assurance and the Social Rate of Discount

Amartya K. Sen

The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1967 · Volume 81 · Issue 1

DOI: 10.2307/1879675

Abstract

I. The isolation paradox and the assurance problem, 112. — II. Optimum savings, 116. — III. The rate of discount, 120. — IV. Rich they, poor us, 121. — V. Conclusions, 122.

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