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Algorithmic monoculture and social welfare. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021
SignificanceAlgorithmic monoculture is a growing concern in the use of algorithms for high-stakes screening decisions in areas such as employment and lending. If many firms use the same algorithm, even if it is more accurate than the alternatives, the resulting “monoculture” may be susceptible to correlated failures, much as a monocultural system is in
Kleinberg J, Raghavan M.
europepmc   +6 more sources

Optimal lockdown and social welfare. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Popul Econ, 2022
This paper examines the robustness of the optimal lockdown strategy to the postulated social welfare criterion. We show that utilitarianism can, under some conditions, imply a COVID-19 variant of Parfit's (1984) Repugnant Conclusion: for any (interior) lockdown with life periods of low quality, there must be a stricter lockdown that is regarded as ...
Pestieau P, Ponthiere G.
europepmc   +9 more sources

Fair classification and social welfare [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2020
Now that machine learning algorithms lie at the center of many resource allocation pipelines, computer scientists have been unwittingly cast as partial social planners. Given this state of affairs, important questions follow. What is the relationship between fairness as defined by computer scientists and notions of social welfare?
Lily Hu, Yiling Chen 0001
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Animals and social welfare

open access: yesSocial Choice and Welfare, 2022
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Savings and the Social Welfare [PDF]

open access: yesThe Sociological Review, 1911
The following paper was read by Mr. George Paish, Editor of The Statist, at an afternoon meeting of the Sociological Society, held in the Hall of the Royal Society of Arts, Adelpni, W.C., on May 2, 1911. The chair was taken by Mc. A. C. Cole, Goreraor of the Bank of England.
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The social welfare state

open access: yesRevista Internacional Consinter de Direito, 2023
This article sought to demonstrate in a systemic way the construction of the Social Welfare State, origin of the modern term of Social Security. For a good understanding of the problem on the subject, it was necessary to outline some initial considerations regarding the historical construction of Social Insurance and the birth of the Social State ...
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Citizenship and Social Exclusion at the Margins of the Welfare State

open access: yes, 2023
This book presents a critical account of how citizenship unfolds among socially marginalised groups in democratic welfare states. Legal, political and sociological perspectives are applied to offer an assessment of the extent and depth of citizenship for

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Benefits of Using Technology through the Use of Applications in Integrated Referral Services in Social Welfare Centers (Puskesos) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Integrated social services organized through the SLRT (Integrated Referral Service System) by the Puskesos (Social Welfare Center) were a step forward in answering today's increasingly complex social problems.
Alfrojems, -; Indonesia Business Coalition for Women Empowerment, HR Rasuna Said, South Jakarta, 12590, Indonesia   +6 more
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The Measurement of Social Welfare [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
This paper derives a basic formula for the measure of social welfare, a second order approximation to the difference of the value of the Bergson-Samuelson social welfare function between the socially optimal resource allocation and the one in the present suboptimal economy.
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The launching of ‘social choice and welfare’ and the creation of the ‘society for social choice and welfare’ [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Choice and Welfare, 2005
The author discusses the appearance of the econometric discipline previously (in the 1970s) called ``Social choice theory and voting'' but soon renamed ``Social choice and welfare'' and he refers to \textit{P. K. Pattanaik} and \textit{M. Salles}' book thus entitled (Amsterdam, North Holland, 1983; Zbl 0512.00031).
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