Personal Utilities and Public Judgements
Or What's Wrong With Welfare Economics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9709847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amartya Sen (0000-0002-5265-1484, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 355 |
| Pages | 537 |
| Publication date | 1979-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2231867 |
| OpenAlex | W2028879025 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 136 |
| References cited | 32 |
Journal Article Personal Utilities and Public Judgements: Or What's Wrong With Welfare Economics Get access Amartya Sen Amartya Sen Oxford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 355, 1 September 1979, Pages 537–558, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231867 Published: 01 September 1979
Economic welfare · Economics · Law and economics · Positive economics · Public economics · Sociology · Welfare · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Game Theory and Voting Systems · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
Environment, human development and economic growth
Utilities versus Rights to Publicly Provided Goods
Waiver, Effectivity and Rights as Game Forms
Anonymous Welfarism, Critical-Level Principles, and the Repugnant and Sadistic Conclusions
Sraffa or An Alternative Economics
Freedom, Achievement and Resources
Class, Gender and Other Groups
Functionings and Capability
Justice and Capability
Introduction Questions and Themes
Freedom, Agency and Well‐Being
Welfare Economics and Inequality
The Demands of Equality
Poverty and Affluence
Welfare Economics, Utilitarianism, and Equity
Work, Needs, and Inequality
Inequality as a Quasi‐Ordering
Measures of Inequality
Interpersonal Comparisons of Well‐Being
CHAPTER 18 Rawlsian Justice
CHAPTER 22 Social Choice in Health and Health Care
Bergson-Wohlfahrtsfunktion und normative Ökonomie
Measuring the Existence Value of Wildlife
Decomposing world health inequality
Disability-adjusted life years
Rights as alternative game forms
Auf dem Weg zu einer Post-Neoliberalen Sozialpolitik? Sozialinvestition versus Capability-Ansatz
Equality of What?
A Critical Assessment of Libertarian Paternalism
Collective interest versus individual interest in Bentham's felicific calculus . Questioning welfarism and fairness
Rawls's influence and counter-influence on Sen
Egalitarianism, Responsibility, and Information
Generalized social welfare functionals
Empathy and respect for the rights of others
The Liberal Paradox
Methodological Individualism and Cultural Economics
What is responsible for the ?Paretian epidemic??
Restricted pareto and rights
The right not to be hungry
Rights, Indirect Utilitarianism, and Contractarianism
On the Consistency of Libertarian Values
The public interest- schools of thought in planning
Welfarism and continuity in ethical theory
Respecting equality in economic option appraisal
Enhancing Sharing Capabilities
Positional preferences and efficiency in a dynamic economy
Two impossibility results for social choice under individual indifference intransitivity
Does moral reasoning influence public values for health care priority setting
Multidimensional Concepts and Disparate Scale Types
Transfer payments, mothers' income and child health in ecuador
Disability and Job Constraint in Post Civil War Cambodia
Chapter 11 Utilitarianism and the theory of justice
Exploring Alternative Measures of Welfare in the Absence of Expenditure Data
L’invisibilisation du commun
Utilitarianism or welfarism
Anonymous Single-profile Welfarism
Animals and Social Welfare
Animals and social welfare
Inequality Reexamined
Sozialpolitik vor dem Paradigmenwechsel
Product filters, acyclicity and Suzumura consistency
The structure of social decision functions
Equity, efficiency and rights in social choice
Dynamic association between ICT, renewable energy, economic complexity and ecological footprint
Project analysis as input to public debate
Fynbos (fine bush) vegetation and the supply of water
Discourse-based valuation of ecosystem services
Reducing or fostering public opposition? A critical reflection on the neutrality of pan-European cost–benefit analysis in electricity transmission planning
Taking “All Men Are Created Equal” Seriously
Accounting for Timing when Assessing Health-Related Policies
Citizen Knowledge and the Debate on Information in Welfare Economics in Perspective
Sen and Mead on Identity, Agency, and Economic Behavior
A Robust Multi-dimensional Poverty Profile for Uganda
The Two Poverty Enlightenments
Constitutional interests in the face of innovations
Aversion to inequality in Italy and its determinants
Aversion to inequality in Italy and its determinants
Improvements in children’s health
Utilitarianism’s Bad Breath? A Re-Evaluation of the Public Interest Justification for Planning
Statistical entrepreneurs
L’idée de justice de Sen
Normes et normativité en économie
Multidimensional poverty among different age cohorts in South Korea
Recovering Food Commons in Post Industrial Europe
Social care‐related outcomes in Finland. Construct validity and structural characteristics of the Finnish Ascot measure with older home care users
The Contradictory Imperatives of Welfare and Economic Policy in the Mixed Economy
The Economic Contributions of Amartya Sen
Whose property is it anyway? The social nature of economic actors and egalitarian remuneration ∗
Welfarism and Utilitarianism
Animal Welfare and Social Decisions
The Normative Problem of Merit Goods in Perspective
Diverging identification of the poor
Assessing the welfare impacts of public spending
Capabilities and gender
Representing the common goods – Stakeholders vs. citizens
Deliberative institutional economics, or DoesHomo oeconomicus argue
Job satisfaction, working conditions and aspirations
Procedural fairness in economic and social choice
Toward eudaimonology
Arrow's theorem with social quasi-orderings
Real National Income
Equity, Arrow's Conditions, and Rawls' Difference Principle
A Pareto-consistent libertarian claim
A Reformulation of Certain Aspects of Welfare Economics
Strategy-proofness and Arrow's conditions
Manipulation of Voting Schemes
An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation
Social Choice and Individual Values
Nozick on Sen
On the labour theory of value
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Decision Theory and Social Ethics
The liberal paradox, decisiveness over issues, and domain restrictions
John Stuart Mill and the Limits of State Action (1973)
A critique of utilitarianism
On the measurement of inequality
The Logic of Collective Action
On Weights and Measures
Poverty
The existence of group preference functions
Individual Liberalism in a Paretian Society
The Possibility of a Paretian Liberal
More on Social Welfare Functions
The Possibility of Democratic Pluralism
Reaffirming the Existence of "Reasonable" Bergson-Samuelson Social Welfare Functions
On the Existence of Social Welfare Functions, Social Orderings and Social Decision Functions
Liberty, Unanimity and Rights
Essays in Economics. Theories and Theorizing
Taking Rights Seriously
Axiomatic Social Choice Theory
On Economic Inequality
An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science
| Unique citing works | 136 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,57 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2026 (54) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 133 |