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LIFE AND DEATH

Ken Binmore

Economics and Philosophy, 2016, vol. 32, issue 1, 75-97

Abstract: What is the value of a life? How should we regard death? This paper uses the methods of economics to defend some of the views of Epicurus against the utilitarian approach that welfare economics takes for granted.

Date: 2016
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