Cerreia-Vioglio, Ghirardato, Maccheroni, Marinacci and Siniscalchi (Economic Theory, 48:341-375, 2011) have recently …-utility preferences are given. A novel proof methodology for special aggregation problems, based on model theory (in the sense of …

emerging social choice theory -, two conflicting ways of dealing with mathematical tools in welfare economics and, above all …

and argue that instead utilitarian, i.e. cardinal social choice theory is relevant for voting. I show that justifications …

wishes to evaluate her options on the basis of a single aggregate prior via classical expected utility theory (a … preference and judgment aggregation theory which show that the aggregate of several probability measures should not be conceived … McConway's (Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 76, no. 374, pp. 410-414, 1981) theory of probabilistic …