Epstein, Larry G; Segal, Uzi - In: Journal of Political Economy 100 (1992) 4, pp. 691-712
John Harsanyi has provided an intriguing argument that social welfare can be expressed as a weighted sum of individual utilities. His theorem has been criticized on the grounds that a central axiom, that social preference satisfies the independence axiom, has the morally unacceptable implication...