BLACKORBY, Charles; BOSSERT, Walter; DONALDSON, David - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2006
This paper reviews the welfarist approach to population ethics. We provide an overview of the critical …-level utilitarian population principles and their generalized counterparts, examine important properties of these principles and discuss … their relationships to other variable-population social-evaluation rules. We illustrate the difficulties arising in …