Social welfare and equality

✍ Scribed by B. Dutta; J. Esteban

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 557 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0176-1714
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00182571

✦ Synopsis

The main purpose of the paper is to provide a unified framework within which normatively significant equality indices can be derived from social welfare orderings. The paper contains a functional representation of the class of social evaluation functions generating relative equality indices.