Liberal Principles for Social Welfare Relations in Infinitely-Lived Societies

Satisficing Coordination and Social Welfare for Robotic Societies

The design of robotic systems that are capable of sophisticated social behavior such as cooperation, compromise, negotiation, and altruism, requires more complex mathematical models than are afforded by the classical mechanisms for making value judgments and decisions. A new concept of multi-agent satisficing, defined in terms of relative effectiveness and efficiency, is an alternative to class...

Treading a Fine Line: Characterisations and Impossibilities for Liberal Principles in Innitely-Lived Societies1

This paper extends the analysis of liberal principles in social choice recently proposed by Mariotti and Veneziani (2009a) to in…nitely-lived societies. First, some novel characterisations of inegalitarian leximax social welfare relations are derived based on the Individual Bene…t Principle (IBP), which incorporates a liberal, non-interfering view of society. This is surprising because the IBP ...

Why Social Relations Matter for Politics and Successful Societies

Political science can gain from incorporating richer conceptions of social relations into its analyses. In place of atomistic entities endowed with assets but few social relationships, social actors should be seen as relational entities embedded in social and cultural structures that connect them to others in multifaceted ways. Understanding those relationships requires a deeper understanding o...

Sociality with Objects. Social Relations in Postsocial Knowledge Societies

The Relations of Social Security and Social Welfare Services

THE PAST few years have seen a growing interest, iu countries at, varyiiig stages of economic and social developmeut, in the appropriate development and organization of social welfare services. Coucepts aud definit,ious as well as methods of providing social services vary greatly, but it seems evident that industrialization aud urbauizat,ion have created certain commuuit,y ueeds to which people...