M Kaneko - Social Choice and Welfare, 1984 - Springer
This paper provides a new formulation of the Nash social welfare function for a continuum of individuals. The new formulation removes redundant assumptions of Kaneko's original …
In Armstrong [1985] I examined precisely dictatorial social welfare functions. These are those social welfare functions o with associated dictator k so that, for a profile/of preferences …
U Ebert - European Economic Review, 1987 - Elsevier
We get one of three different cases. 1 m= l means rank dictatorship, m= n represents the utilitarian rule, In the intermediate case (1< m< n) there exists one group of m ranks which …
M KANEKO, K NAKAMURA - The Economic Studies Quarterly (Tokyo …, 1979 - jstage.jst.go.jp
1. Introduction and Definitions In Kaneko and Nakamura[2], we demonstrate that there exists the unique social welfare func tionwhich satisfies several rationality criteria. The function is …
The paper deals with the characterization of a class of social welfare orderings. The social evaluation functions which represent these orderings are separable in the components of …
JA Weymark, K Tsui - Economic Theory, 1997 - ideas.repec.org
This article characterizes all of the continuous social welfare orderings which satisfy the Weak (resp. Strong) Pareto principle when utilities are ratio-scale measurable. With Weak …
The Bergson-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 …
K Mosler - Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality, 1994 - Springer
The problem of comparing social states with respect to several attributes is investigated in a purely ordinal framework. Axioms are given for an additive (in individual welfare levels) …