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Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism

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Alain Trannoy () (EHESS and GREQAM-IDEP)
John Weymark () (Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University)

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Social welfare dominance criteria based on critical-level generalized utilitarian social welfare functions are investigated. An analogue of a generalized Lorenz curve called a generalized concentration curve is introduced. For a fixed critical utility level c, a partial order of utility distributions based on these curves is defined and shown to coincide with the partial order obtained by declaring one utility distribution to be weakly preferred to a second if and only if the former is weakly preferred to the latter for all inequality averse critical-level c generalized utilitarian social welfare functions. An extension of this result that allows for a range of critical levels is also established.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University in its series Working Papers with number 0707.

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Keywords: Critical-level utilitarianism; generalized Lorenz dominance; social welfare dominance;

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D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation

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