TY - JOUR
T1 - Social welfare relations and irregular sets
AU - Dubey, Ram Sewak
AU - Laguzzi, Giorgio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/10/1
Y1 - 2023/10/1
N2 - Social welfare relations satisfying Pareto and equity principles on infinite utility streams have revealed a non-constructive nature, specifically by showing that in general they imply the existence of non-Ramsey sets and non-Lebesgue measurable sets. In [4, Problem 11.14], the authors ask whether such a connection holds with non-Baire sets as well. In this paper we answer such a question showing that several versions of Pareto principles acting on different utility domains imply the existence of non-Baire sets. Furthermore, we analyze in more details the needed fragments of AC and we start a systematic investigation of a social welfare diagram in a similar fashion done in the past decades concerning cardinal invariants and regularity properties of the reals. In doing that we use tools from forcing theory, such as specific tree-forcings (in particular variants of Silver and Mathias forcings) and Shelah's amalgamation.
AB - Social welfare relations satisfying Pareto and equity principles on infinite utility streams have revealed a non-constructive nature, specifically by showing that in general they imply the existence of non-Ramsey sets and non-Lebesgue measurable sets. In [4, Problem 11.14], the authors ask whether such a connection holds with non-Baire sets as well. In this paper we answer such a question showing that several versions of Pareto principles acting on different utility domains imply the existence of non-Baire sets. Furthermore, we analyze in more details the needed fragments of AC and we start a systematic investigation of a social welfare diagram in a similar fashion done in the past decades concerning cardinal invariants and regularity properties of the reals. In doing that we use tools from forcing theory, such as specific tree-forcings (in particular variants of Silver and Mathias forcings) and Shelah's amalgamation.
KW - Descriptive set theory
KW - Forcing
KW - Infinite utility streams
KW - Social welfare relations
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apal.2023.103302
DO - 10.1016/j.apal.2023.103302
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85161545708
SN - 0168-0072
VL - 174
JO - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
JF - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
IS - 9
M1 - 103302
ER -