Ratio-Scale and Translation-Scale Full Interpersonal Comparability without Domain Restrictions: Admissible Social-Evaluation Functions

DOI10.2307/2526436zbMath0508.90004OpenAlexW1986336883MaRDI QIDQ4747857

Publication date: 1982

Published in: International Economic Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2526436

zbMATH Keywords

independence social welfare function unrestricted domain interpersonal comparability Pareto indifference leximin and weighted utilitarian social evaluation functions ratio-scale comparability translation scale

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14)

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