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Liberal approaches to ranking infinite utility streams: When can we avoid interference?
Autor(es)
Palabras clave
Public utilities
Public welfare
Liberalism
Set theory
Pareto principle
Axiom of choice
Utilidades públicas
Bienestar público
Liberalismo
Teoría de conjuntos
Principio de Pareto
Axioma de elección
Clasificación UNESCO
53 Ciencias económicas
Fecha de publicación
2013-07
Citación
Alcantud, J.C.R. (2013). Liberal approaches to ranking infinite utility streams: When can we avoid interference? Social Choice and Welfare, 41 (2), pp 381-396
Resumen
[EN]In this work we analyse social welfare relations on sets of finite and
infinite utility streams that satisfy various types of liberal non-interference
principles. Earlier contributions have established that (finitely) anonymous
and strongly Paretian quasiorderings exist that verify non-interference axioms
together with weak preference continuity and further consistency. Nevertheless
Mariotti and Veneziani prove that a fully liberal non-interfering view of a
finite society leads to dictatorship if the weak Pareto principle is imposed. We
first prove that this impossibility result vanishes when we extend the horizon
to infinity. Then we investigate a related problem: namely, the possibility of
combining \standard" semicontinuity with eficiency in the presence of non-interference. We provide several impossibility results that prove that there is
a generalised incompatibility between relaxed forms of continuity and non-
interference principles, both under ordinal and cardinal views of the problem.
URI
ISSN
0716-1714
DOI
10.1007/s00355-012-0687-x
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