On the informational basis of social choice with the evaluation of opportunity sets
On the informational basis of social choice with the evaluation of opportunity sets
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基于机会集评估的社会选择的信息基础
DOI:
10.1007/s00355-013-0764-9
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发表时间:
2014
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0.9
通讯作者:
Yukinori Iwata
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作者:
Joshua Chan;Roberto Leon-Gonzalez;Rodney W. Strachan;Yukinori Iwata
This paper examines the informational basis of social choice in a broader conceptual framework.Formal welfarismis a social evaluation in which any information other than the well-being of individuals is excluded, where the notion of individual well-being can be conceived in various ways. We propose a notion of individual well-being defined over pairs of outcomes and opportunity sets from which they are chosen. The concept ofconsequentialismandnon-consequentialismis naturally introduced by restricting individualevaluation functionsover the pairs of outcomes and opportunity sets. The twoformal welfarism theoremsprovide axiomatic characterizations of formal welfarism in the extended framework. We show that the presence of a consequentialist or a non-consequentialist affects the validity of the two formal welfarism theorems in the extended framework.