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Linear Aggregation of SSB Utility Functionals

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A necessary and sufficient condition for linear aggregation of SSB utility functionals is presented. Harsanyi's social aggregation theorem for von Neumann–Morgenstern utility functions is shown to be a corollary to this result. Two generalizations of Fishburn and Gehrlein's conditional linear aggregation theorem for SSB utility functionals are also established.

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  1. Department of Economics and Finance, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA

    Arja H. Turunen-Red

  2. Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z1

    John A. Weymark

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Turunen-Red, A.H., Weymark, J.A. Linear Aggregation of SSB Utility Functionals. Theory and Decision 46, 281–294 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005068512551

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