Dear Raphael!
You wrote:
> There seems to be a difference in how the sums are occuring. This
> welfare function applies a negative utility to people having wealth
> that is not average.
If you refer to the Gini social welfare function, this is not true!
Increasing any individual welfare always i
Dear Stephen!
You wrote:
> Can we confirm that "welfare" is a synonym for
> "utility"?
As far as it is just a name, sure. However, on the group (society)
level, the term "utility" seems to be used most often for the *sum* of
the individual utilities, that is, for a *specific* social welfare funct
Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Nice to see a discussion of welfare in this context.
>Can we confirm that "welfare" is a synonym for
>"utility"?
There seems to be a difference in how the sums are occuring. This welfare
function applies a negative utility to people having wealth that
Nice to see a discussion of welfare in this context.
Can we confirm that "welfare" is a synonym for
"utility"?
A starting model would be: given a voting system which
is sufficiently expressive (perhaps a range system),
assume that everyone just votes their welfare
directly, and see where that gets
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax writes:
> If Mr. Poole thinks that what I wrote was "political rant," I wonder
> what planet he is from. He is certainly free to ignore it, as is
> anyone. But what I wrote was little more than what is commonly
> believed among, for example, legal experts regarding the 2000 ele
