Utilitarianism or welfarism: does it make a difference?

Nicolas Gravel () and Patrick Moyes ()

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Abstract: We show that it is possible to reconcile the utilitarian and welfarist principles under the requirement of unanimity provided that the set of profiles over which the consensus is attained is rich enough. More precisely, we identify a closedness condition which, if satisfied by a class of n-tuples of utility functions, guarantees that the rankings of social states induced by utilitarian and welfarist unanimities over that class are identical. We illustrate the importance of the result for the measurement of unidimensional as well as multidimensional inequalities from a dominance point of view. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2013

Keywords: Economie; Quantitative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-02
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Published in Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, 40 (2), pp.529-551. ⟨10.1007/s00355-011-0617-3⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s00355-011-0617-3

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