期刊名称:Discussion Papers / Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
印刷版ISSN:0804-6824
出版年度:2001
卷号:2001
出版社:Bergen
摘要:Suppose it is admitted that when all individuals prefer a state of a
airs to an-
other, the social preference should follow their unanimous assessment. Then
it seems hard to avoid the conclusion that when all individuals are indi
erent
between the two states of a
airs, so should the social judgment be one of indif-
ference. Because if the social judgment was a strict preference in that case, it
would remain so in the case when all individuals have a strict but slight prefer-
ence in the other direction, unless the social preferences are discontinuous with
respect to the state of a
airs.