Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
10-2012
Abstract
We provide an axiomatization of an additively separable social welfare function in the context of Harsanyi's impartial observer theorem. To do this, we reformulate Harsanyi's setting to make the lotteries over the identities the observer may assume independent of the social alternative.
Discipline
Economic Theory
Research Areas
Economic Theory
Publication
Social Choice and Welfare
Volume
39
Issue
4
First Page
833
Last Page
846
ISSN
0176-1714
Identifier
10.1007/s00355-011-0563-0
Publisher
Springer Verlag (Germany)
Citation
GRANT, Simon; KAJII, Atsushi; POLAK, Ben; and SAFRA, Zvi.
A generalized representation theorem for Harsanyi's ('impartial') observer. (2012). Social Choice and Welfare. 39, (4), 833-846.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1852
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-011-0563-0