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Search within results (((YAO Ming-xia[Author]) AND 1[Journal]) AND year[Order]) AND OR NOT Title Author Institution Keyword Abstract PACS DOI Please wait a minute... For Selected: Download Citations EndNote Ris BibTeX Toggle Thumbnails Select The Rise of Non-Welfarism in Welfare Economics YAO Ming-xia Teaching and Research    2005, (8): 71-76.   Abstract （1143）      PDF（pc） （925KB）（1808）       Knowledge map    Save The welfareists claim that to judge the standard of welfare in a society one needs only to look at the level of utility among members of that society. For a long time, welfare economics has maintained this welfarist idea. However, there arose a wave of research on non-welfare among scholars of welfare economics since the 1970s. Four reasons can be referred to account for the replacement of welfarism by non-welfarism. Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem,defects in the Pareto Criterion,theoretical reconsideration of efficiency and fairness, and practical reconsideration of efficiency and fairness. Researches of non-welfarism include questioning the hypothesis of "rational economic agents", and issues concerning liberty, individual rights, individual standard of living. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0） Select On Theory of Social Welfare Function in the West YAO Ming-xia Teaching and Research    2000, (11): 65-68.   Abstract （1241）      PDF（pc） （448KB）（1689）       Knowledge map    Save Development of the theory of social welfare function has experienced four stages. The classical utilitarianism looks at social welfare as simply the sum of welfare of all members of that society. During the transitional period when new welfare economics prevails the Bergson-Samuelson social welfare function is the dominant theory. With the rise of Arrow’s impossibility theorem research in social welfare function in the West enters a stage of perplexity. Research in Arrow’s impossibility theorem then leads to a revival of the classical utilitarianism in modern times. It does not indicate a return to the classical utilitarianism, though. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）