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In welfare economics and social choice theory, a social welfare function—also called a social ordering, ranking, utility, or choice function—is a function that ranks a set of social states by their desirability. Each person's preferences are combined in some way to determine which outcome is considered better by society as a whole. It can be viewed as…
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TTTA extracted 98 structured relationships around Social welfare function. Examples in this analysis include Social welfare function → is a → function that takes as input numeric representations of individual utilities and incompatible with his own philosophical behaviorism.Auxiliary specifications enable comparison of different social states by each member of society in preference satisfaction → instance of → He therefore rejected. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Social welfare function | is a | function that takes as input numeric representations of individual utilities | 0.90 | text |
| incompatible with his own philosophical behaviorism.Auxiliary specifications enable comparison of different social states by each member of society in preference satisfaction | instance of | He therefore rejected | 0.80 | text |
| which of several candidates should be elected.Arrow found that contrary to the assertions of Lionel Robbins | instance of | which ranks alternative social states | 0.80 | text |
| other behaviorists | instance of | which ranks alternative social states | 0.80 | text |
| dropping the requirement of real-valued | instance of | which ranks alternative social states | 0.80 | text |
| Social welfare function | related to Cardinal welfare | The | 0.60 | section |
| Social welfare function | related to Cardinal welfare | Examples | 0.60 | section |
| Social welfare function | related to Cardinal welfare | For | 0.60 | section |
| Social welfare function | related to Ordinal welfare | In | 0.60 | section |
| Social welfare function | related to Ordinal welfare | Abram Bergson | 0.60 | section |
| Social welfare function | related to Ordinal welfare | The | 0.60 | section |
| Social welfare function | related to Ordinal welfare | It | 0.60 | section |
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Source: Wikipedia — Social welfare function · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout