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Utilitarianism without individual utilities

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  • Thierry Marchant

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We characterize anonymous utilitarianism in a multi-profile and purely ordinal framework, i.e. without assuming that utilities have been measured beforehand.

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  • Thierry Marchant, 2019. "Utilitarianism without individual utilities," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 53(1), pages 1-19, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:53:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1007_s00355-019-01177-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s00355-019-01177-7
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