title: Social evaluation with variable population size: an alternative concept.
abstract: This paper deals with some consequences of certain population changes on social welfare considerations.  In particular, a general concept for expressing value judgments about how the addition of 1 further agent to some given society should affect social welfare and a replication invariance condition are introduced and discussed.  An axiomatic framework for welfare orderings based on a generalized averaging procedure applied to individual utilities is provided.
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D011153:Population; D011156:Population Density; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012946:Social Welfare
keywords: Behavior; Decision Making; Demographic Factors; Economic Factors; Evaluation; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Size; Social Welfare; Utility Theory