社會選擇和福利探索了福利經濟學、集體選擇和戰略互動的規范性和積極性。主題包括但不限于：優惠聚合、福利標準、公平、正義和公平、權利、不平等和貧窮衡量、投票和選舉、政治游戲、聯盟形成、公共物品、機制設計、網絡、匹配、最佳稅收、成本效益分析、計算社會選擇、判斷和分配。種族隔離、市場設計、行為福利經濟學、主觀幸福感研究以及與社會選擇和投票相關的實驗調查。因此，《華爾街日報》是跨學科的，跨越了經濟學、政治學、哲學和數學的界限。關于選擇和順序理論的文章，包括可以應用于上述主題的結果，也包括在雜志中。《華爾街日報》在強調理論的同時，也發表了有關該領域的實證研究，反映了理論研究和實證研究之間的交叉作用。讀者可以找到原始的研究文章、調查和書評。

Social Choice and Welfare explores all aspects, both normative and positive, of welfare economics, collective choice, and strategic interaction. Topics include but are not limited to: preference aggregation, welfare criteria, fairness, justice and equity, rights, inequality and poverty measurement, voting and elections, political games, coalition formation, public goods, mechanism design, networks, matching, optimal taxation, cost-benefit analysis, computational social choice, judgement aggregation, market design, behavioral welfare economics, subjective well-being studies and experimental investigations related to social choice and voting. As such, the journal is inter-disciplinary and cuts across the boundaries of economics, political science, philosophy, and mathematics. Articles on choice and order theory that include results that can be applied to the above topics are also included in the journal. While it emphasizes theory, the journal also publishes empirical work in the subject area reflecting cross-fertilizing between theoretical and empirical research. Readers will find original research articles, surveys, and book reviews.