Multi-profile welfarism: A generalization

This paper characterizes welfarist social evaluation in a multiprofile setting where, in addition to multiple utility profiles, there may be more than one profile of non-welfare information. We prove a new version of the welfarism theorem in this alternative framework, and we demonstrate that adding...

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Veröffentlicht in:Social choice and welfare 2005-04, Vol.24 (2), p.253-267
Hauptverfasser: Blackorby, Charles, Bossert, Walter, Donaldson, David
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This paper characterizes welfarist social evaluation in a multiprofile setting where, in addition to multiple utility profiles, there may be more than one profile of non-welfare information. We prove a new version of the welfarism theorem in this alternative framework, and we demonstrate that adding a plausible and weak anonymity property to the welfarism axioms generates welfarist social-evaluation orderings that are anonymous.
ISSN:0176-1714
1432-217X
DOI:10.1007/s00355-003-0301-3