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utilitarianism, in the variable-population setting, arises from a new, weak form of individual stochastic dominance with two … avoids prominent egalitarian objections to utilitarianism by only applying if certain correlations are preserved. Our result …
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Utilitarianism is the most prominent family of social welfare functions. We present three new axiomatic ….'s (1998) Expected Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism (ECLGU) is equivalent to a new axiom holding that it is better to … novel characterizations extend classic axiomatizations of utilitarianism from settings with either social risk or variable …
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We propose and axiomatically characterize, within Harsanyi's impartial observer setting, a utilitarian social welfare function (SWF) that can accommodate concerns for procedural fairness. Under our proposal, concerns for procedural fairness in social welfare assessments are inherited from...
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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 …
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We address a basic diffculty with incorporating fairness into standard utilitarian choice theories. Standard utilitarian theories evaluate lotteries according to the (weighted) utility over ?nal outcomes and assume in particular that a lottery is never preferred over getting the most preferred...
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The paper reexamines the welfare economics of intergenerational risk. Risk and its resolution over time are modeled as a decision tree: in each period, the consumption of the current one-period living generation is to be traded-off against uncertain benefits of future generations; as time...
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-level generalized utilitarianism (PARDCLU), through a key axiom that requires that the social welfare order both be ethical and satisfy … discounted utilitarianism, and avoids objections that have been raised against other ethical criteria. PARDCLU is shown to handle … utilitarianism - but with additional structure - in a special case. …
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, both in a static and in an intertemporal framework. Section 5 deals with the special case of utilitarianism. We review some … welfarism theorem to a variable-population framework and provide a characterization of critical-level generalized utilitarianism …
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