Social Welfare Function/bergson%e2%80%93samuelson Social Welfare Function

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    “Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Borrow a child and get on welfare.
    Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child,
    or go to the public park with the child, and take the child
    to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and
    be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don’t talk
    back ...”
    —Susan Griffin (b. 1943)

    “Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information—hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)