Population Ethics

Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson

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

Abstract: This paper reviews the welfarist approach to population ethics. We provide an overview of the critical-level utilitarian population principles and their generalized counterparts, examine important properties of these principles and discuss their relationships to other variable-population social-evaluation rules. We illustrate the difficulties arising in population ethics by means of an impossibility result and present characterizations of the critical-level generalized-utilitarian principles and of three of their sub-classes.

Keywords: Population Ethics; Social Evaluation; Welfarism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2006
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