... correctly calibrate interpersonal utility, and thereby add up utilities to give the utilitarian social
welfare ... it is impossible to implement a social choice rule that makes interpersonal comparisons
of utility ... 23 John Broome's argument against utilitarianism is somewhat more roundabout ...

... that when I came to the study of economics, I had the strongest bias in favour of a utilitarian
analysis. ... I never thought of abandoning my provisional utilitarianism as a working political
philosophy. ... 201 assumptions involving interpersonal comparison were certainly not of this order ...

... The following table is useful for comparing utilitarianism (U) to the lexicographic maximin (L)
when both are considered under the assumption of full comparability. ... Page 3. MASKIN A
THEOREM ON UTILITARIANISM 95 ... [10] Sen, AK " Interpersonal Comparisons of Welfare ...

... Robbins well-known attack on inter- personal comparisons as treated by utilitarians was
essentially ... the utilitarian rule of ranking is used through {V}, then utilitarianism will be ... assumption
of comparability with ordinal or cardinal individual welfares, the utilitarian rule generates a ...

... 17 Thus to the extent that utilitarians and quasi-utilitarians have been clear in their theories of ...
181 ask what kinds of interpersonal psychic comparisons must be meaning- ful if the utilitarian
theory of ... The answer to that depends on the specific version of utilitarianism we consider ...

... this has usually been seen as the main problem with Harsanyi utilitarian- ism in ... In this formulation
of utilitarianism, there- fore, individuals are meant to choose as ... INTERPERSONAL COMPARISONS
OF UTILITY 215 to represent each individual's preferences, which is clearly ...

... When the individual utility functions are co-cardinal, condition (5) be- comes compatible with
what is commonly called 'utilitarianism', with the social ordering ... This 'utilitarian' social ordering
is not the only possible one embodying interpersonal comparisons of marginal ...

... This frees us from having to make interpersonal comparisons of utility except in choosing the
optimal tradeoff between efficiency and equality in the general tax/transfer system and except ...
'On some difficulties of the utilitarian economist.' In Utilitarianism and Beyond (ed ...

... in. EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE THEORY OF JUSTICE Many theories of justice, including
both Rawls's and utilitarianism, imply that the social ... Rawls criticizes this utilitarian evasion, though
cautiously; he does not wish to reject interpersonal comparisons (90/1 ...

... Atkinson and Bourguignon, 1982; AB Atkinson, F. Bourguignon; The comparison of
multidimensional distributions of economic status. ... Rights, indirect utilitarianism, and
contractarianism. ... Why ethical measures of inequality need interpersonal comparisons. ...