… We show that these two classes of social welfare functions are what we call the Paretian
generalized median and generalized median social welfare functions, respectively. With a gen…

… evaluate social alternatives using a social preference. In this chapter, I provide an introduction
to social welfare function … A social welfare function is generalized utilitarian if there exists a …

… Social Choice and Individual Values. His argument is that if we require a social welfare
function to … apparently reasonable conditions, then it can be proved that no such function exists. …

… The GSWFL concept is a generalization of Sen's (/970) familiar "social welfare functional"
(SWFL) which maps any given n-tuple of real-valued individual utility functions into a social …

… to some function, called a generalized social welfare function (GSWF). The GSWF is a function
F … by the voters, the function determines the preference of the society amongst each of the …

… properties of a Social Welfare Function (SWF). … of a welfare consideration if Paretianity is
accepted. In the next section we demonstrate this property of SWF and develop a generalized …

… social welfare function derived in Theorem 1, but at the same time they allow for more general
social welfare … gained by having more general social welfare functions may not always be …

… income into (1) social welfare gain and (2) social welfare loss. The … to discuss and analyze
the social welfare bases of income … social welfare functions are considered: Theil, generalized …

… of social welfare function to social well-being function. The inequality in well-being is then
derived as a proportional loss of social well-being function … a general form of social welfare func…

… Arrow, who believes that "the solution of the social welfare problem may lie in some
generalization of the unanimity condition . . . .", remarks that "Black's postulate, elegant thflugh it may …