Social criteria for evaluating population change

Social criteria for evaluating population change

Many applications of economic analysis require social evaluations of alternatives involving different numbers of people. In this paper we use the tools of social-choice theory to provide an axiomatic formulation of this problem. It yields a class of social criteria called ‘critical-level generalized...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of public economics 1984-11, Vol.25 (1), p.13-33
Hauptverfasser: Blackorby, Charles, Donaldson, David
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Changes
Criteria
Econometrics
Economic models
Economic theory
Evaluation
Mathematical analysis
Population
Social
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Zusammenfassung:Many applications of economic analysis require social evaluations of alternatives involving different numbers of people. In this paper we use the tools of social-choice theory to provide an axiomatic formulation of this problem. It yields a class of social criteria called ‘critical-level generalized utilitarianism’. This class and its implications are compared with other criteria and are found to yield intuitively appealing results.
ISSN:0047-2727
1879-2316
DOI:10.1016/0047-2727(84)90042-2