Mukhopadhaya, Pundarik - In: Inequality, welfare and poverty : theory and measurement, (pp. 245-264). 2003
The Social Welfare Function (SWF) is a decision rule to rank alternative social states in a complete fashion in terms of social welfare. This paper questions the philosophy of Paretian Principle as a desirable property of the SWF. It shows that it is possible to generalize the widely used Sen...