We present a logic of social welfare functions. The logical language is syntactically simple, but expressive enough to express interesting and complicated properties of social welfare functions involving, e.g., quantification over both preference relations and over individual alternatives, such as Arrow’s thorem.

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Direct practice social workers today are challenged to address the requirements of the complex array of professional, organizational, institutional, and regulatory demands placed on them in the broader socioeconomic context of fewer resources and diminished public support for social welfare services in the United States. The common factors model provides an accessible, transtheoretical, empiric...

Is it better to live in a big country than a small one? In this paper, I examine whether economic and social conditions vary systematically with the population of a country. Economics provides a number of theoretical reasons why country size should matter, for instance, because of increasing returns to scale or because it is easier to provide public goods to a larger populace. However, there is...

In this paper we build a model to examine inequality of process and inequality of outcomes in interest group politics. The model has the following features: (i) interest groups which compete for rents in a noncooperative game, (ii) a self-interested rent-setting political decision maker (iii) democratic or popular pressure as a check on the self-interest of the political decision maker. We allo...

Nehring (2004) proposes an interesting methodology to extend the utilitarian criterion defined under complete information to an interim social welfare ordering allowing to compare acts. The first axiom defining his approach, called “State Independence,” requires the interim social welfare ordering to be consistent with ex-post utilitarian comparisons: if it is commonly known that the act f sele...