On social welfare functionals: Representation theorems and equivalence classes

Vladimir Levin

Mathematical Social Sciences, 2010, vol. 59, issue 3, 299-305

Abstract: We substantially weaken the traditional unrestricted domain assumption and give axiomatic characterizations of social welfare functionals representable by utility functions of the form , where is a utility profile specifying a concrete welfare situation, and W is a real-valued function belonging to a particular class. Also we consider general equivalence relations on the utility space and obtain representation theorems on utility equivalence classes.

Keywords: Assembling; and; strong; assembling; Neutrality; Strengthened; acyclicity; Translation; invariance; and; positive; translation; invariance; Pasting; together; Quasi; Pareto; and; weak; Pareto; principles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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