Why ethical measures of inequality need interpersonal comparisons

DOI10.1007/BF00135081MaRDI QIDQ1241162zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter J. Hammond

Publication date 1976

Published in Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00135081

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Utility theory (91B16)

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• Generic properties of simple Bergson-Samuelson welfare functions
• Welfare, preference and freedom
• Welfarism on economic domains
• Factual versus representational utilities and their interdimensional comparisons
• An axiomatization of the mixed utilitarian-maximin social welfare orderings
• The news of the death of welfare economics is greatly exaggerated
• Beyond pareto optimality: The necessity of interpersonal cardinal utilities in distributional judgements and social choice
• Interdependent altruistic preference models

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