Social Choice and Welfare

Social choice with analytic preferences

“Social Choice with Analytic Preferences”

An introduction to strategy-proof social choice functions

Some Results for Impossibility Theorems of Social Welfare Function and Social Choice Function

We present some results on social welfare function and social choice function. First, we replace weak Pareto principle of Arrow’s axioms with strong Pareto principle, and then show that assuming unrestricted domain property, independence of irrelevant alternatives and strong Pareto principle on a social welfare function in Arrow’s sense leads to the existence of first to nth commanders whose st...

An interview with Paul Samuelson: welfare economics, "old" and "new", and social choice theory

Social Welfare Functions and Income Distributions

Old welfare economics, Pigou (1920), considered social welfare as a cardinal notion, while new welfare economics,1 Little (1950) and Graaff (1957), consider social welfare as an ordinal notion. An in depth introduction to welfare economics and a discussion of the transition from old to new welfare economics, is expounded quite well by Samuelson (1947, Chap. 8, pp. 203–219, and pp. 249–252). For...

Intergenerational equity and an explicit construction of welfare criteria