Chapter 10 Social welfare functionals and interpersonal comparability

Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 459-541

  d'Aspremont, Claude ^a   Gevers, Louis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

invariance axioms; social welfare functionals; social welfare orderings; utilitarianism; welfarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649380711     PISSN: 15740110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0110(02)80014-5     Document Type: Review

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