Welfarism and information invariance

Walter Bossert ()

Social Choice and Welfare, 2000, vol. 17, issue 2, pages 321-336

Abstract: This paper examines the consequences of imposing general information-invariance conditions in the context of welfarist social-welfare functionals. Dual relationships between invariance axioms for social-welfare functionals and the corresponding properties of the associated social-welfare orderings are established. Unlike most of the literature on information assumptions in social-choice theory, the paper does not restrict attention to invariance conditions that can be defined in terms of admissible utility transformations and, instead, employs a more general approach.

Date: 2000-02-29
Note: Received: 6 October 1997/Accepted: 17 March 1999
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations View citations in EconPapers (1) Track citations by RSS feed

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00355/papers/0017002/00170321.pdf (application/pdf)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted

Related works:
Working Paper: Welfarism and Information Invariance
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:17:y:2000:i:2:p:321-336

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://link.springer.de/orders.htm

Access Statistics for this article

Social Choice and Welfare is edited by John Duggan, Marc Fleurbaey, Wulf Gaertner and Maurice Salles

More articles in Social Choice and Welfare from Springer
Series data maintained by Guenther Eichhorn ().