The importance of social learning for non-market valuation
Grainger, Daniel, and Stoeckl, Natalie (2019) The importance of social learning for non-market valuation. Ecological Economics, 164. 106339.
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Abstract
Neoclassical valuation methods often measure the contribution that non-market goods make to utility as income compensations. This circumvents Arrow's impossibility (AI) –a theoretical proof establishing the impossibility of social preferences – but those methods cannot be used in all settings. We build on Arrow's original proof,showing that with two additional axioms that allow for social learning, a second round of preference elicitation with a social announcement after the first, generates logically consistent social preferences. In short: deliberation leads to convergence. A ‘web-game’ aligning with this is trialed to select real world projects, in a deliberative way, with the board of an Australian Aboriginal Corporation. Analysis of the data collected in the trial validates our theory; our test for convergence is statistically significant at the 1% level. Our results also suggest complex social goods are relatively undervalued without deliberation. Most non-market valuation methods could be easily adapted to facilitate social learning
| Item ID: | 60394 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1873-6106 |
| Keywords: | social welfare, non-market valuation, deliberative valuation, deliberative institutions, cost benefit analysis, Arrow’s impossibility |
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| Copyright Information: | © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. |
| Funders: | NESP Northern Australia Economics Resources Hub, Australian Research Council (Discovery Indigenous Scheme) |
| Projects and Grants: | Project 5.3 of the Northern Australian Environmental Resources Hub of NESP, Grant number IN190100061, 2019 (ARC Discovery Indigenous Scheme) |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2019 05:41 |
| FoR Codes: | 38 ECONOMICS > 3801 Applied economics > 380105 Environment and resource economics @ 25% 38 ECONOMICS > 3801 Applied economics > 380113 Public economics - public choice @ 50% 38 ECONOMICS > 3803 Economic theory > 380303 Mathematical economics @ 25% |
| SEO Codes: | 91 ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK > 9102 Microeconomics > 910206 Market-Based Mechanisms @ 50% 91 ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK > 9102 Microeconomics > 910209 Preference, Behaviour and Welfare @ 50% |
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