New axiomatic characterizations of utilitarianism

Vladimir Levin

Mathematical Social Sciences, 2009, vol. 58, issue 1, 15-24

Abstract: We give new axiomatic characterizations of utilitarianism in the absence of the unrestricted domain assumption, examine independence of proposed axioms, and discuss connections between our axioms and the known ones.

Keywords: Social; welfare; functional; Translation-invariance; Quasi; Pareto; principle; Strongly; utilitarian; social; welfare; mapping; Solidarity; Localization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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