John Broome

Richard Bradley () and Marc Fleurbaey
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Richard Bradley: London School of Economics and Political Science

A chapter in Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory - Vol. 1, 2021, pp 115-127 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract John Broome describes his journey from economics to philosophy, from general equilibrium theory and optimal taxation to intentionality and rationality, as well as more applied topics such as health measurement or climate change. He reflects on utilitarianism and prioritarianism and questions the latter’s approach to the moral valuation of wellbeing. He revisits Harsanyi’s aggregation theorem and its generalization to betterness relations, as well as the relation between wellbeing and risk preferences, and how these considerations bear on interpersonal comparisons. Population ethics and the intuition of neutrality about population size, as well as the possibility to make judgments that are relative to the evaluator’s position in time and space, are critically scrutinized.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62769-0_7

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