Search Results - subject:"Generalized utilitarianism"

Foundations of Utilitarianism under Risk and Variable Population

Spears, Dean; Zuber, Stéphane - 2021

.'s (1998) Expected Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism (ECLGU) is equivalent to a new axiom holding that it is better to …

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Foundations of utilitarianism under risk and variable population

Spears, Dean; Zuber, Stéphane - 2021

.'s (1998) Expected Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism (ECLGU) is equivalent to a new axiom holding that it is better to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583668

Foundations of utilitarianism under risk and variable population

Spears, Dean; Zuber, Stéphane - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668221

Is Global Social Welfare Increasing? a Critical-Level Enquiry

Cockburn, John; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Zabsonré, Agnès - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2014

approach called critical-level generalized utilitarianism (CLGU). CLGU posits that social welfare increases with population …

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Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi’s Partial Observer Theorem

Grant, Simon; Kajii, Atsushi; Polak, Ben; Safra, Zvi - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2006

We provide an axiomatization of generalized utilitarian social welfare functions in the context of Harsanyi's impartial observer theorem. To do this, we reformulate Harsanyi's problem such that lotteries over identity (accidents of birth) and lotteries over outcomes (life chances) are...

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CRITICAL-LEVEL POPULATION PRINCIPLES AND THE REPUGNANT CONCLUSION

BLACKORBY, Charles; BOSSERT, Walter; DONALDSON, David - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2002

attractive way of avoiding the repugnant conclusion. We discuss the axiomatic foundations of critical-level generalized … utilitarianism and investigate its relationship to the sadistic and strong sadistic conclusions. A positive critical level avoids the …

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Critical-Level Population Principles and the Repugnant Conclusion

BLACKORBY, Charles; BOSSERT, Walter; DONALDSON, David - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2002

attractive way of avoiding the repugnant conclusion. We discuss the axiomatic foundations of critical-level generalized … utilitarianism and investigate its rela-tionship to the sadistic and strong sadistic conclusions. A positive critical level avoids …

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