Social welfare function

Japanese: social welfare function(英語表記)socialwelfarefunction
Social welfare function

…However, even if economics cannot determine value judgments about the fairness of distribution, it remains an interesting subject of scientific research to investigate the consequences of value judgments of interest in society on resource allocation. The social welfare function proposed by Abram Bergson (1914- ) and PA Samuelson was introduced as a tool concept that formalizes this research program. It is a real-valued function that specifies the level of social welfare according to the form of welfare distribution to each individual, and its corresponding rules are considered to crystallize value judgments about distribution. …

*Some explanations of terms that refer to the "social welfare function" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし分配の公正に関する価値判断そのものは経済学が定めうるものではないとしても,社会において関心の対象とされる価値判断が資源配分に対していかなる帰結を生むかを調べることは,依然として〈科学的〉研究の興味ある課題である。バーグソンAbram Bergson(1914‐ )およびP.A.サミュエルソンにより提唱された社会的厚生関数social welfare functionは,このような研究プログラムを形式化した道具概念として導入されたものである。これは各個人への厚生分配の態様に応じて社会的厚生水準を指定する実数値関数であって,その対応規則のうちに分配に関する価値判断が結晶化されているものとされる。…

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