Harel, Alon; Segal, Uzi - In: Social Choice and Welfare 42 (2014) 2, pp. 367-380
Since Becker (<CitationRef CitationID="CR3">1971</CitationRef>), a common argument against asymmetric norms that promote minority rights over those of the majority is that such policies reduce total welfare. While this may be the case, we show that there are simple environments where aggregate sum of individual utilities is actually...</citationref>