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On Strongly-equitable Social Welfare Orders Without the Axiom of Choice

Luke Serafin
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Social welfare orders seek to combine the disparate preferences of an infinite sequence of generations into a single, societal preference order in some reasonably-equitable way. In [2] Dubey and Laguzzi study a type of social welfare order which they call SEA, for strongly equitable and (finitely) anonymous. They prove that the existence of a SEA order implies the existence of a set of reals which does not have the Baire property, and observe that a nonprincipal ultrafilter over $\mathbb{N}$ can be used to construct a SEA order. Questions arising in their work include whether the existence of a SEA order implies the existence of either a set of real numbers which is not Lebesgue-measurable or of a nonprincipal ultrafilter over $\mathbb{N}$. We answer both these questions, the solution to the second using the techniques of geometric set theory as set out by Larson and Zapletal in [11]. The outcome is that the existence of a SEA order does imply the existence of a set of reals which is not Lebesgue-measurable, and does not imply the existence of a nonprincipal ultrafilter on $\mathbb{N}$.

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Luke Serafin. 2024-06-12. On Strongly-equitable Social Welfare Orders Without the Axiom of Choice. https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08684

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