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Social Welfare Evaluation and Intergenerational Equity

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Authors:
  1. Kohei Kamaga

    1. Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

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  • Presents an analysis of evaluation criteria for both intra- and intergenerational problems of social welfare evaluation
  • Explains how intragenerational social welfare evaluation can be extended to intergenerational social welfare evaluation
  • Contains new developments in analysis of intra- and intergenerational social welfare evaluation in social choice theory

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)

Part of the book sub series: Development Bank of Japan Research Series (BRIEFSDBJRS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kohei Kamaga
    Pages 1-8

  3. Intragenerational Social Welfare Evaluation

    • Kohei Kamaga
    Pages 9-32

  4. Intergenerational Social Welfare Evaluation

    • Kohei Kamaga
    Pages 33-62

  5. Extended Anonymity and Intergenerational Social Welfare Evaluation

    • Kohei Kamaga
    Pages 63-86

  6. Intergenerational Social Welfare Evaluation with Variable Population Size

    • Kohei Kamaga
    Pages 87-109

  7. Conclusion: Further Issues

    • Kohei Kamaga
    Pages 111-115

  8. Correction to: Social Welfare Evaluation and Intergenerational Equity

    • Kohei Kamaga
    Pages C1-C1

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 117-119
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About this book

This book presents a synthesis of recent developments in axiomatic analyses of social welfare evaluation in social choice theory. It covers three different contexts of social welfare evaluation, namely, social welfare evaluation within a generation, intergenerational social welfare evaluation involving infinitely many generations, and intergenerational social welfare evaluation with variable population sizes of generations. Analyzing these three different but related contexts of social welfare evaluation in a unified manner, the book places the emphasis on the close linkage between them and provides readers with new insight regarding the relationship between them.

Evaluation criteria discussed in the book are firmly rooted in moral philosophy. Besides the axiomatic analyses of utilitarian and egalitarian evaluation criteria, newly developed results on compromised criteria between the utilitarian and egalitarian evaluation criteria are covered as well. The book is recommended toreaders who seek an up-to-date integrated overview of a large and broad body of the literature on the axiomatic analysis of social welfare evaluation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

    Kohei Kamaga

About the author

Koichi Kamaga is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Sophia University, Japan.

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