Nonlinear social welfare functions

JC Harsanyi - Theory and Decision, 1975 - Springer
… 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

Nonlinear social welfare functions: a rejoinder to Professor Sen

JC Harsanyi - Foundational Problems in the Special Sciences: Part …, 1977 - Springer
… views favoring non linear social welfare functions. … social-policy choices do obey the
Bayesian rationality axioms, it still does not follow that we have to define our social welfare function

Nonlinear Social Welfare Functions: Do Welfare Economists Have a Special Exemption from Bayesian Rationality?

JC Harsanyi - Essays on Ethics, Social Behavior, and Scientific …, 1975 - Springer
… does not apply to social decisions, even though it may apply to individual decisions. It also …
of making social welfare a nonlinear function of individual utilities. The social welfare function

Non-linear social welfare functions: a reply to Professor Harsanyi

A Sen - Foundational Problems in the Special Sciences: Part …, 1977 - Springer
… While I find Harsanyi's critique of non-linear social welfare functions interesting and
important, and welcome this opportunity of discussing further why I disagree with him, I would …

Nonlinear prices and welfare

M Spence - Journal of public economics, 1977 - Elsevier
… In what follows, the welfare problem is formulated and solved for desirable nonlinear
price schedules. The resulting … The welfare function is taken to be. …

Quadratic social welfare functions

LG Epstein, U Segal - Journal of Political Economy, 1992 - journals.uchicago.edu
… above for the social welfare function. Call the function of I variables W a social welfare function
(… 142-43), (ii) the acceptability of a social welfare function that is nonlinear in individual …

[PDF][PDF] Nonlinear dynamics of Cournot duopoly game with social welfare

AA Elsadany, AM Awad - Electronic Journal of Mathematical …, 2016 - ejmaa.journals.ekb.eg
… of the social welfare and its own profit), see in [4], [24]. … their individual profits and the social
welfare. The structure of this … on a generalized inverse demand function and social welfare. In …

Comparative static properties of optimal nonlinear income taxes

JA Weymark - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1987 - JSTOR
… Comparative static properties of optimal nonlinear income … social welfare function and
quasilinear preferences. The parameters which are varied are the weights in the welfare function, …

The Nash social welfare function

M Kaneko, K Nakamura - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1979 - JSTOR
… the studies of social choice theory is that the social choice is … a social welfare function W
as a mapping which assigns to each profile of individual preferences p = (R1,... , Rn) a social

Nonlinear functional analysis and optimal economic growth

G Chichilnisky - Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 1977 - Elsevier
… a We also make the following assumption on the welfare function: … of Proposition 1 we now
assume h = 8, where 6 is the discount factor of the definition of the social welfare function W. …