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Utilitarian Aggregation of Beliefs and Tastes

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Itzhak Gilboa (Tel Aviv university)
Dov Samet (Tel Aviv university)
David Schmeidler (Tel Aviv university)

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Several authors have indicated a contradiction between consistent aggregation of subjective beliefs and tastes, and a Pareto condition. We argue that the Pareto condition that implies the contradiction is not compelling. Society should not necessarily endorse a unanimous choice when it is based on contradictory beliefs. Restricting the Pareto condition to choices that only involve identical beliefs allows a utilitarian aggregation: both society's utility function and its probability measure are linear combinations of those of the individuals.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Game Theory and Information with number 0105001.

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Keywords: Utilitarianism; Pareto;

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C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
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