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Interpersonal Aggregation and Partial Comparability
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This article is published in Econometrica.The article was published on 1970-05-01. It has received 148 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Comparability.read more
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Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a new measure of poverty, which should avoid some of the shortcomings of the measures currently in use, and used an axiomatic approach to derive the measure.
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Elements of a Theory of Human Rights
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the elements of a theory of human rights, which see them as pronouncements in social ethics, sustainable by open public reasoning, and examine whether legislation is the pre-eminent, or even a necessary, route through which human rights can be expressed.
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Social Choice Theory: A Re-Examination
TL;DR: A recent survey of social choice theory can be found in this article, where a categorization of interpersonal aggregation problems into four distinct types that seem to require varying treatment but typically do not receive it is discussed.
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On Weights and Measures: Informational Constraints in Social Welfare Analysis
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Real National Income
TL;DR: In this article, the same commodity going to two different persons as two different goods is treated as a weighting of " goods", which will incorporate distributional judgements, and a welfare interpretation of real income comparisons without the usual restrictive assumptions, e.g., leaving out distributional considerations explicitly.
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Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility
TL;DR: The naive concept of social welfare as a sum of intuitively measurable and comparable individual cardinal utilities has been found unable to withstand the methodological criticism of the Pareto school as mentioned in this paper and Professor Bergson has therefore recommended its replacement by the more general concept of a social welfare function, defined as an arbitrary mathematical function of economic (and other social) variables, of a form freely chosen according to one's personal ethical (or political) value judgments.
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An Extension of the Basic Theorems of Classical Welfare Economics
TL;DR: In this article, the classical theorem of welfare economics on the relation between the price system and the achievement of optimal economic welfare is reviewed from the viewpoint of convex set theory, and it is found that the theorem can be extended to cover the cases where the social optima are of the nature of corner maxima, and also where there are points of saturation in the preference fields of the members of the society.
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How Income Ought To Be Distributed: Paradox Regained
TL;DR: This article argued in support of the rejected axioms and the conclusion of the Fisher-Rothenberg paper and argued that the acceptability of the ten ethical postulates in Fisher and Rothenberg's paper on "How Income Ought To Be Distributed" is a matter of personal appeal, and it would be vain to hope that all readers would find them unexceptionable.