The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics

Charles Blackorby (), Walter Bossert () and David Donaldson

Cahiers de recherche from Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ

Abstract: This paper examines several families of population principles in the light of a set of axioms. In addition to the critical level utilitarian, number-sensitive critical-level utilitarian and number-dampened families and their generalized counterparts, we consider the restricted number-dampened family (suggested by Hurka) and introduce two new families: the restricted critical-level and restricted number-dependent critical-level families.

Keywords: ETHICS; POPULATION; UTILITARISM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 D60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2001
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