Axiomatic Characterization of Utilitarian Social Utility for Wealth Distributions

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We show that the von-Neumann Morgenstern theory of expected utility can provide an axiomatic characterization of utilitarian social utility functions of wealth distributions based on a utility of wealth function.

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