Group Decision Making Using Cardinal Social Welfare Functions.

Abstract

The paper addresses the problem of constructing a group cardinal social welfare function whose arguments are the individual utility functions of group members. Representation theorems are given which show that the social welfare function is restricted to special forms if certain 'reasonable' conditions hold. The appropriateness of these conditions for different types of group decision problems is discussed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0770010

Entities

People

  • Craig W. Kirkwood
  • Ralph L. Keeney

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Social Welfare

Readers

  • Operations Research
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.