critiques to utilitarianism by satisfying the following three fairness axioms: possibility of trade-offs sets a limit to the …

Undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergeneration justice has been questioned for different reasons: It has … allocation must involve discounting, and (2) that undiscounted utilitarianism subjects the present generation to heavy demands …-nologies) that undiscounted utilitarianism is so malleable that any efficient and non-decreasing allocation can be the unique optimum …

how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …

We propose and axiomatize probability adjusted rank-discounted critical-level generalized utilitarianism (PARDCLU). We … thus generalize rank-discounted utilitarianism (RDU) (proposed by Zuber and Asheim, 2012) to variable population and risky … other policy issues with long-run consequences. We illustrate how PARDCLU yields rank-dependent expected utilitarianism …

out the space between critical-level utilitarianism and (a version of) critical-level leximin. Moreover, it satisfies many … when the critical level is zero. -- social evaluation ; population ethics ; critical-level utilitarianism ; social …

planner's von Neumann-Morgenstern preference. We start from Harsanyi's [18] axiomatization of utilitarianism, and ask under … Dhillon and Mertens used to axiomatize relative utilitarianism. We simplify the axioms, provide a much simpler and more …