Title :
Measuring Social Welfare through Location and Consensus Measures
Author :
Garcia-Lapresta, Jose Luis ; Pereira, Ricardo Alberto Marques
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Economia Aplic., Univ. de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
fDate :
Nov. 30 2009-Dec. 2 2009
Abstract :
In this paper we introduce a new procedure for comparing and ordering social welfare situations by considering location, dispersion, consensus and welfare measures generated by exponential means. These measures satisfy interesting properties and generalize some measures used in welfare economics.
Keywords :
social sciences; consensus measures; exponential means; location measures; social welfare situations; welfare economics; welfare measures; Dispersion; Economic indicators; Intelligent systems; Proposals;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, 2009. ISDA '09. Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pisa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4735-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3872-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISDA.2009.182
