… 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 …

… social ordering, since AwB, BwC, but CwA. I want to suggest in this paper that this approach
to a social welfare function … are most crucial in empirical cases of social choice, and that it is …

… utilizes social welfare functions to derive measures of social … idea of social welfare function
to social well-being function. … a proportional loss of social well-being function (see Chap. 6 …

… social welfare function that would adequately formalize our intuitive notion of public interest;
how to define social power, or social … social welfare function. In fact, it can be shown that the …

… We now discuss the implications of the postulates described above for the social welfare
function. Call the function of I variables W a social welfare function (representing >) if, for all …

… -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 …

… 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. …

… social preferences can be constructed from individual preferences. Such a rule, or social
welfare function, gives a social … Arrow's theorem declares that no social welfare function exists …

… A social welfare function (SWF) is a function whose domain D is a subset of the set of all
ordered n-tuples 6R = (R1, R2, * **, R.) of orderings of (t. Its range is a subset of the set of all …

… 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 …