Abstract
Recently Bob Russell published an impossibility result with Chuck Blackorby. The gentlemen argue that it is impossible to aggregate efficiency indices. Since some of us make a descent living decomposing the efficiency of an economy into sectoral contributions the question is if we are crooks. This paper attempts to give an answer to this question.
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ten Raa, T. (2007). Don’t Aggregate Efficiency But Disaggregate Inefficiency. In: Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., Primont, D. (eds) Aggregation, Efficiency, and Measurement. Studies in Productivity and Efficiency. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-47677-3_9
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