dc.contributor.author | Trannoy, Alain | |
dc.contributor.author | Weymark, John A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-14T01:08:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-14T01:08:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15862 | |
dc.description.abstract | Social welfare dominance criteria based on critical-level generalized utilitarian social welfare functions are investigated. An analogue of a generalized Lorenz curve called a generalized concentration curve is introduced. For a fixed critical utility level c, a partial order of utility distributions based on these curves is defined and shown to coincide with the partial order obtained by declaring one utility distribution to be weakly preferred to a second if and only if the former is weakly preferred to the latter for all inequality averse critical-level c generalized utilitarian social welfare functions. An extension of this result that allows for a range of critical levels is also established. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Vanderbilt University | en |
dc.subject | Critical-level utilitarianism | |
dc.subject | generalized Lorenz dominance | |
dc.subject | social welfare dominance | |
dc.subject | JEL Classification Number: D31 | |
dc.subject | JEL Classification Number: D63 | |
dc.subject | JEL Classification Number: D13 | |
dc.subject.other | | |
dc.title | Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism | |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.description.department | Economics | |