The very question over what a workless family has a right to receive from society – the welfare bill proposes "a cap on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive so that workless households will no longer receive more in benefit than working households receive in average wages" – seems almost chosen with Malthus's example in mind.
With small populations enjoying high welfare, a variable value principle behaves like total utilitarianism and assigns most of the value to the total sum of welfare.
A breadline that was considerably higher before he destroyed it and lowered the amount of welfare people can receive.
If the social welfare function is averse to inequality, the total amount of income in the equal-equivalent distribution is less than in the unequal distribution.
Examining the total amount of resources available in a policy field helps in understanding the overall potential of welfare interventions and the mix between public and private expenditures, which can be compared with the declared policy values.
A newly reduced cap on the total amount of financial help someone can receive from the government has hit housing welfare the hardest, and those living in expensive areas have been particularly affected.
Mr Osborne imposed the welfare spending cap on government expenditure to cap the total amount of spending on social security in a year.
He also signalled a change in policy on welfare, hardening Labour's opposition to the government's welfare reforms, by pledging to oppose the cap on the total amount of benefits that a person can receive.
The total amount of social contribution includes employees' wages (bonuses, allowances, etc)., labor retirement investment, and other social welfare expenditures, net interest payments, value added tax payable, sales tax and extra charges, other taxes, and net profit.
The total amount of grain has not been determined.
