This paper characterizes welfarist social evaluation in a multi-profile setting where, in addition to multiple utility profiles, there may be more than one profile of nonwelfare information. We prove a new version of the welfarism theorem in this alternative framework, and we demonstrate that adding a plausible and weak anonymity property to the welfarism axioms generates welfarist social-evalu...

What do we mean by econometrics? Econometrics is the field of economics in which statistical methods are developed and applied to estimate economic relationships, test economic theories, and evaluate plans and policies implemented by private industry, government, and supranational organizations. Econometrics encompasses forecasting–not only the high-profile forecasts of macroeconomic and financ...