… -Samuelson social welfare function (SWF) has become a standard tool of welfare analysis.
Our main purpose in the present note is to cast doubt on the existence of such functions. More …

… between an Individualistic Social Welfare Function and a general Paternalistic Social …
On the existence of social welfare functions, social orderings and social decision functions. …

… social preferences can be constructed from individual preferences. Such a rule, or social
welfare function, gives a social … the existence of social welfare functions; any correspondence of …

Ever since 1951, when Kenneth Arrow published his monograph showing the paradox that
social welfare functions generate, there has been interest in overcoming or bypassing this …

… preference to obtain rather deep insights into the existence of meaningful social welfare
functions. First, a formal definition of implementability is required. We say that f: W -- P(fQ) is …

… choice theory to comparatively evaluate social alternatives using a social … to social
welfare function approaches to making such comparisons. With a social welfare function, social …

… the sure-thing principle) does not apply to social decisions, even though it may apply to …
of making social welfare a nonlinear function of individual utilities. The social welfare function …

… Social Choice and Individual Values. His argument is that if we require a social welfare function
to … 26 This is not to imply that definitive empirical studies for any society do already exist. …

The problem of aggregating individual preference orderings to form a social ordering took a
new turn when Arrow organized the subject abstractly. We study here his celebrated …

… This paper aims at examining the possibility of constructing an Arrowsocial welfare function
(… to such a welfare function to consistency with the Shari'ah. Individual choice functions only …