Group Decision Making Using Cardinal Social Welfare Functions

Ralph L. Keeney and Craig W. Kirkwood
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Ralph L. Keeney: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Craig W. Kirkwood: Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan

Management Science, 1975, vol. 22, issue 4, 430-437

Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of constructing a group cardinal social welfare function whose arguments are the individual utility functions of group members. Representation theorems are given which show that the social welfare function is restricted to special forms if certain "reasonable" conditions hold. The appropriateness of these conditions for different types of group decision problems is discussed.

Date: 1975
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