Population Ethics and the Value of Life
dc.contributor.author | Blackorby, Charles | |
dc.contributor.author | Bossert, Walter | |
dc.contributor.author | Donaldson, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-22T19:56:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-22T19:56:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1866/491 | |
dc.format.extent | 154456 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.publisher | Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques. | fr |
dc.subject | Population Ethics | |
dc.subject | Neutrality | |
dc.subject | Critical Levels | |
dc.subject | [JEL:D63] Microeconomics - Welfare Economics - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement | en |
dc.subject | [JEL:D71] Microeconomics - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations | en |
dc.subject | [JEL:D63] Microéconomie - Économie du bien-être - Egalité, justice, inégalité et autres critères normatifs et mesures | fr |
dc.subject | [JEL:D71] Microéconomie - Analyse de prise de décision collective - Choix social, clubs, comités | fr |
dc.title | Population Ethics and the Value of Life | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Université de Montréal. Faculté des arts et des sciences. Département de sciences économiques | |
dcterms.abstract | Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to prenatal care and the design of aid packages to developing countries. In order to assess the corresponding feasible choices on normative grounds, criteria for social evaluation that are capable of performing variable-population comparisons are required. We review several important axioms for welfarist population principles and discuss the link between individual well-being and the desirability of adding a new person to a given society. | |
dcterms.abstract | Dans l'évaluation des politiques économiques, il est nécessaire d'utiliser des critères qui sont capables de faire des comparaisons de bien-être social entre des sociétés avec des populations différentes. Nous analysons plusieurs propriétés de tels critères et discutons des liens entre le bien-être individuel et la désirabilité de l'ajoût d'une nouvelle personne dans une société donnée. | |
dcterms.isPartOf | urn:ISSN:0709-9231 | |
UdeM.VersionRioxx | Version publiée / Version of Record | |
oaire.citationTitle | Cahier de recherche | |
oaire.citationIssue | 2003-07 |
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