According to standard theory founded on Harsanyi (1953, 1955) a social welfare function can be appropriately based on …

According to standard theory founded on Harsanyi (1953, 1955) a social welfare function can be appropriately based on …

This paper provides a welfare analysis of trade liberalization based upon the moral principles of utilitarianism. The … history of the moral philosophy of utilitarianism is described including its introduction into what became known as Cambridge … welfare economics. The differences between this school of thought and what would later develop as modern welfare analysis are …

can give some interesting support to utilitarianism. The argument is conveyed by means of three theorems that encapsulate …

how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …

Utilitarianism is the most prominent family of social welfare functions. We present three new axiomatic … characterizations of utilitarian (that is, additively separable) social welfare functions in a setting where there is risk over both ….'s (1998) Expected Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism (ECLGU) is equivalent to a new axiom holding that it is better to …

A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with … population size and the welfare of each person alive. A welfare criterion that speaks to this issue inherently requires … evaluating the welfare of nonexistent people, because some people exist only in some allocations but not in others. To make …