Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 103302 |
| Journal | Annals of Pure and Applied Logic |
| Volume | 174 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Oct 2023 |
Keywords
- Descriptive set theory
- Forcing
- Infinite utility streams
- Social welfare relations
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