Título: Harsanyi’s Social Aggregation Theorem : A Multi-Profile Approach with Variable-Population Extensions
Autores: BLACKORBY, Charles
BOSSERT, Walter
DONALDSON, David
Fecha: 2006-09-22
2006-09-22
2003
Publicador: Université de Montreal
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Tipo: Article
Tema: Harsanyi’s social aggregation theorem
multi-profile social choice
population ethics
[JEL:D71] Microeconomics - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
[JEL:D81] Microeconomics - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
[JEL:D71] Microéconomie - Analyse de prise de décision collective - Choix social, clubs, comités
[JEL:D81] Microéconomie - Information et incertain - Critères de prise de décision sous le risque et l'incertain
Descripción: This paper provides new versions of Harsanyi’s social aggregation theorem that are formulated in terms of prospects rather than lotteries. Strengthening an earlier result, fixed-population ex-ante utilitarianism is characterized in a multi-profile setting with fixed probabilities. In addition, we extend the social aggregation theorem to social-evaluation problems under uncertainty with a variable population and generalize our approach to uncertain alternatives, which consist of compound vectors of probability distributions and prospects.
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