Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de sciences économiques - Travaux et publications by Subject "welfarism"

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  • In Defense of Welfarism 

    Blackorby, Charles; Bossert, Walter; Donaldson, David (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2002)
    This paper characterizes welfarist social evaluation in a multi-profile setting where, in addition to multiple utility profiles, it is assumed that there are several profiles of non-welfare information. We prove new versions of the welfarism theorems ...

  • Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being 

    Blackorby, Charles; Bossert, Walter (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2004)
    This paper, which is to be published as a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, provides an introduction to social-choice theory with interpersonal comparisons of well-being. We argue that the most promising route of escape from the ...