Grant, Simon; Kajii, Atsushi; Polak, Ben; Safra, Zvi - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2006
We provide an axiomatization of generalized utilitarian social welfare functions in the context of Harsanyi's impartial observer theorem. To do this, we reformulate Harsanyi's problem such that lotteries over identity (accidents of birth) and lotteries over outcomes (life chances) are...