Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and EthicsCambridge University Press, 22 août 2005 - 369 pages This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. Basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever lived), the axiomatic method is employed. Topics investigated include the measurement of individual well-being, social attitudes toward inequality of well-being, the main classes of population principles, principles that provide incomplete rankings or rank uncertain alternatives, best choices from feasible sets, and applications. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Measurement of Individual WellBeing | 13 |
Welfarist Social Evaluation | 41 |
FixedPopulation Principles | 68 |
Population Principles | 129 |
Characterizations and Possibilities | 180 |
Uncertainty and Incommensurabilities | 209 |
Independence of the Existence of the Dead | 253 |
Temporal Consistency | 272 |
Choice Problems and Rationalizability | 286 |
Applications | 320 |
References | 347 |
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Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics Charles Blackorby,Walter Bossert,David J. Donaldson Aucun aperçu disponible - 2005 |
Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics Charles Blackorby,Walter Bossert,David J. Donaldson Aucun aperçu disponible - 2005 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
addition affine transformations average utility axiom binary independence birth dates Blackorby Bossert Chapter characterization choice function consistency consumption critical-level generalized utilitarian critical-level utilitarian defined Donaldson equal equivalent ethical ex-ante utility example existence of critical fixed-population follows full comparability Gini implies independence of irrelevant individual inequality averse information invariance intertemporal invariance with respect irrelevant alternatives leximin lifetime utility lives worth living Lorenz curve maximin minimal increasingness neutrality nonnegative nonwelfare information number-dampened number-sensitive critical-level obtain Pareto indifference Pareto weak preference person population principle population sizes priority for lives proof quasi-ordering ranked as better ratio-scale rationalizability replication invariance representative utility repugnant conclusion requires restricted result same-number satisfies continuity social choice theory social-evaluation functional social-evaluation ordering strong Pareto Suppose Theorem transformed utility utilitarian ordering utilitarian principles utility function utility independence utility level utility vectors value function variable-population welfarism welfarism theorem welfarist well-being Weymark WRTV zero