Sentence examples for welfare functions from inspiring English sources

9. Sen, like Arrow in his definition of social welfare functions (as opposed to functionals), required R to be an ordering by definition.

This seems to raise the ethical stakes concerning properties of decomposability of indices or separability of social welfare functions, which are usually considered in economics merely as convenient conditions simplifying the functional forms (although separability may also be justified by the subsidiarity principle, according to which unconcerned individuals need not have a say in a decision).

Our conclusions can easily be generalized to more egalitarian welfare functions.

This study shows how the informal sector is closely tied to the formal economy and the State's welfare functions.

The government is also reconstituting the Greyhound Racing NSW board and will transfer its regulatory and welfare functions to the new independent integrity commission.

3. Workers' guilds, common in the Middle Ages, may again rise to prominence, taking over many of the welfare functions currently provided by big companies.

I was trying to work this out as an economics paper showing how a concern for equality could be built into these social welfare functions.

Much of the money made by the state firms is being soaked up by payments for welfare functions, including the wages of laid-off workers.

The group, one of a few in the city dedicated to pigeon welfare, functions through a Yahoo message board, active since 2004.

Romney went on to talk about the social-welfare functions of government.

This church assumed many of the administrative, political, and social-welfare functions of the ancient Roman state in the West following the invasion of the Germans.