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Additively-separable and rank-discounted variable-population social welfare functions : A characterization
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Spears, Dean (author)
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- Stefánsson, H. Orri (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Stockholms universitet,Filosofiska institutionen,Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Sweden; Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden,Kollegiet för avancerade studier (SCAS),Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen
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- Elsevier BV, 2021
- 2021
- English.
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In: Economics Letters. - : Elsevier BV. - 0165-1765 .- 1873-7374. ; 203
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Abstract
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- Economic policy evaluations require social welfare functions for variable-size populations. Two important candidates are critical-level generalized utilitarianism (CLGU) and rank-discounted critical-level generalized utilitarianism, which was recently characterized by Asheim and Zuber (2014) (AZ). AZ introduce a novel axiom, existence of egalitarian equivalence (EEE). First, we show that, under some uncontroversial criteria for a plausible social welfare relation, EEE suffices to rule out the Repugnant Conclusion of population ethics (without AZ’s other novel axioms). Second, we provide a new characterization of CLGU: AZ’s set of axioms is equivalent to CLGU when EEE is replaced by the axiom same-number independence.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Social welfare
- Population ethics
- Utilitarianism
- Rank-discounted utilitarianism
- Critical-level utilitarianism
- Separability
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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