 On Non-Welfarist Social Ordering FunctionsA chapter in Rational Choice and Social Welfare, 2008, pp 43-67 from Springer Abstract: Welfarism is defined as a methodology that evaluates social welfare according to the level of satisfaction with regard to individuals’ subjective preferences. For this methodology, the criticisms by Dworkin (1981a, 2000), Sen (1979, 1980), and others are well known. They criticized the limited scope of information used to evaluate social welfare in the aforementioned methodology. Moreover, they criticize the welfarist neutral attitude vis-à-vis the problem of what types of preferences are satisfied. There are types of preferences, such as the utility of individual offensive tastes, that of expensive tastes, that of formation of the adaptive preference, or that of cheaper tastes such as in the case of the ‘termed housewife,’ all of which should be carefully and distinctively treated in the evaluation of social welfare from an ethical point of view. The point of these critiques is that the welfarist evaluation has no concern for such preferential differences. Keywords: Nash Equilibrium; Social Welfare; Binary Relation; Distributive Justice; Social Welfare Function (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:stcchp:978-3-540-79832-3_4 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79832-3_4 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Studies in Choice and Welfare from Springer |
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