Individualistic social welfare functions under ordinalism: a reply to Mayston

Murray C. Kemp; Yew Kwang Ng

doi:10.1016/0165-4896(83)90033-1

Individualistic social welfare functions under ordinalism: a reply to Mayston

Murray C. Kemp, Yew Kwang Ng

Department of Economics

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It is reaffirmed that, in the construction of social welfare functions, Individualism and Ordinalism are incompatible conditions. An attempt is made to clarify the nature of our disagreement with Mayston.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	305-307
Number of pages	3
Journal	Mathematical Social Sciences
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4896(83)90033-1
Publication status	Published - Jul 1983

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