Cesàro average utilitarianism in relativistic spacetime

Marcus Pivato

Social Choice and Welfare, 2023, vol. 61, issue 4, No 1, 733-761

Abstract: Abstract Widely accepted theories in modern cosmology say that spacetime is probably infinite. This raises the question how to define a social welfare order (SWO) for an infinite population of people dispersed throughout time and space. Any such SWO should be Lorentz invariant: it should yield the same value independent of the position and velocity of the social observer. I define and axiomatically characterize spatiotemporal Cesàro average utilitarian SWOs as a solution to this problem.

Date: 2023
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