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Quantity, quality, equality: introducing a new measure of social welfare
Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9093-3995
2021 (English)In: Social Choice and Welfare, ISSN 0176-1714, E-ISSN 1432-217X, Vol. 57, no 3, p. 665-701Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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In this essay I propose a new measure of social welfare. It captures the intuitive idea that quantity, quality, and equality of individual welfare all matter for social welfare. More precisely, it satisfies six conditions: Equivalence, Dominance, Quality, Strict Monotonicity, Equality and Asymmetry. These state that (i) populations equivalent in individual welfare are equal in social welfare; (ii) a population that dominates another in individual welfare is better; (iii) a population that has a higher average welfare than another population is better, other things being equal; (iv) the addition of a well-faring individual makes a population better, whereas the addition of an ill-faring individual makes a population worse; (v) a population that has a higher degree of equality than another population is better, other things being equal; and (vi) individual illfare matters more for social welfare than individual welfare. By satisfying the six conditions, the measure improves on previously proposed measures, such as the utilitarian Total and Average measures, as well as different kinds of Prioritarian measures.

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Springer Nature, 2021. Vol. 57, no 3, p. 665-701
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-235596DOI: 10.1007/s00355-020-01286-8ISI: 000640725400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85104722501OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-235596DiVA, id: diva2:1938823
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