Questions tagged [social-welfare]
Social welfare is a quantitative measure of how good or bad a policy or situation is for a society, overall. It is usually obtained by somehow "aggregating" the utility functions of all the people in that society (e.g. by computing the average utility).
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Ultrafilters in Social Choice Theory Literature Request
I am an undergraduate math major who is intrigued about social choice theory. I am in the early stages of planning my senior project and was wondering if anybody had some recommendations of literature ...
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Implementing Coasian bargaining to achieve social welfare
In this excellent answer, Ubiquitous elaborates on the Coasian solution as an alternative to Pigouvian subsidies. I wanted to explore and understand the solution a bit further.
Consider the setting ...
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Economic Model: Incentive Compatible Market Economy that Satisfies Basic Needs
The capitalism system relies on a monetary system for exchange of goods and services. This appears to cause a large number of problems. For example, we shun those that don't have money.
Is there an ...
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Why is the derivative of this SWF non-positive?
This question is related to the development of The Joint Giving Theorem (by S. Kolm).
There are two types of agents: benevolent and beneficiaries.
Benevolents' preferences are represented by ...
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Policy relevance of the optimal taxation given uncertainty about social welfare specification
One common criticism in the optimal taxation literature is the specification of the social welfare function. The optimal taxation literature (I have the Mirrlees framework in mind) relies on first ...
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Mechanisms to incentivise social welfare
Suppose there is a set of agents causing loss $l_i$ to themselves and aggregate loss $L$ to the society, both of which can be minimised by their investments $c_i$.
The social planner who is concerned ...
