Identity, ethics and behavioural welfare economics

Ivan Mitrouchev () and Valerio Buonomo
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Ivan Mitrouchev: LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Abstract Multiple selves is a conventional assumption in behavioural welfare economics for modelling intrapersonal well-being. Yet an important question is which self has normative authority over others. In this paper, we advance an argument for what we call the ‘ontological approach' to personal identity in behavioural welfare economics. According to this approach, ethical questions – such as which preference should be granted normative authority over another – can be informed by the ontological criterion of personal persistence, which aims at determining what it takes for an individual to persist from one time to another.

Keywords: Multiple selves; ontology; preference reversals; time; well-being; B41; D15; I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-04-27
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Published in Economics and Philosophy, 2023, pp.1-27. ⟨10.1017/S0266267123000123⟩

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DOI: 10.1017/S0266267123000123

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