On social welfare functions and the aggregation of preferences

DOI10.1016/0022-0531(79)90009-7zbMath0497.90002OpenAlexW2056919190MaRDI QIDQ1170989

James C. Moore, John S. Chipman

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0531(79)90009-7

zbMATH Keywords

social utilityinternational tradeweak ordersocial preference relationcost-of-living indicescommunity indifference curveshousehold consumption behavior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Individual preferences (91B08) Social choice (91B14)

Related Items (11)

Approximation aggregation under uncertainty ⋮ The consistency of welfare judgements with a representative consumer ⋮ The structure of representative preference ⋮ Risk aversion and uniqueness of equilibrium in economies with two goods and arbitrary endowments ⋮ A new approach to the uniqueness of equilibrium with CRRA preferences ⋮ Inequality aversion and risk aversion ⋮ Measurable triples and cardinal measurement ⋮ When does aggregation reduce risk aversion? ⋮ Potential welfare and the sum of individual compensating or equivalent variations ⋮ Ratio-conjugation tool and its application in linear optimization models† ⋮ Aggregation and pairwise aggregation of demand when the distribution of income is fixed

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