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A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare

机译:公平与社会福利理论

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The dominant basis for normative policy analysis uses a social welfare function (SWF) for ranking alternative resource allocations. While this has some attractive features and can incorporate value judgments in a tractable way, it suffers from a significant problem. It is necessary at a minimum to make interpersonal welfare comparisons, and, for more general applications, to presume that utility is at least cardinally measurable. This is especially problematic if persons differ in preferences. For example, how should we compare the welfare of a hard-working, low-skilled person who earns the same income as another who is high-skilled and loves leisure? This problem has largely been side-stepped in the mainstream normative second-best policy literature, which conveniently assumes preferences are identical for all. This remarkable book takes on this issue by proposing methods for obtaining social ordering functions (SOFs) when individual utilities are neither measurable nor interpersonally comparable, and when preferences can differ.
机译:规范政策分析的主要基础是使用社会福利函数(SWF)对替代资源分配进行排名。尽管这具有一些吸引人的功能,并且可以以易于处理的方式包含价值判断,但它仍然存在严重的问题。至少有必要进行人际福利比较,并且对于更一般的应用,必须假定效用至少是可基本衡量的。如果人们的偏好不同,这尤其成问题。例如,我们应该如何比较一个努力工作,低技能的人与另一个高技能,热爱休闲的人的收入相同?在主流的规范性第二好的政策文献中,这个问题已在很大程度上回避了,后者方便地假设所有人的偏好都是相同的。这本非凡的著作通过提出一些方法来提出这个问题,当个体效用既不可衡量也不可与人际比较时,且偏好可能不同时,该方法将获得社会秩序功能。

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