social welfare function

C47161
concept

A social welfare function is a rule that aggregates individual preferences or utilities into a single ordering or measure of overall societal well-being.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
social welfare function canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: social welfare function
Generated description
A social welfare function is a rule that aggregates individual preferences or utilities into a single ordering or measure of overall societal well-being.

Instances (1)

Instance Via concept surface
Bergson–Samuelson social welfare function