Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de sciences économiques - Travaux et publications by Author "Donaldson, David"
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Anonymous Single-Profile Welfarism
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2004)This note reexamines the single-profile approach to social-choice theory. If an alternative is interpreted as a social state of affairs or a history of the world, it can be argued that a multi-profile approach is inappropriate because the information ... -
The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)This paper examines several families of population principles in the light of a set of axioms. In addition to the critical-level utilitarian, number-sensitive critical-level utilitarian and number-dampened families and their generalized counterparts, ... -
Critical-Level Population Principles and the Repugnant Conclusion
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2002)Critical-level generalized-utilitarian population principles with positive critical levels pro-vide an ethically attractive way of avoiding the repugnant conclusion. We discuss the axiomatic foundations of critical-level generalized utilitarianism and ... -
Harsanyi’s Social Aggregation Theorem : A Multi-Profile Approach with Variable-Population Extensions
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)This paper provides new versions of Harsanyi’s social aggregation theorem that are formulated in terms of prospects rather than lotteries. Strengthening an earlier result, fixed-population ex-ante utilitarianism is characterized in a multi-profile ... -
In Defense of Welfarism
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2002)This paper characterizes welfarist social evaluation in a multi-profile setting where, in addition to multiple utility profiles, it is assumed that there are several profiles of non-welfare information. We prove new versions of the welfarism theorems ... -
Intertemporal Social Evaluation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)Intertemporal social-evaluation rules provide us with social criteria that can be used to assess the relative desirability of utility distributions across generations. The trade-offs between the well-being of different generations implicit in each such ... -
Population Ethics
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-09)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 ... -
Population Ethics and the Value of Life
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)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 ... -
A Representation Theorem for Domains with Discrete and Continuous Variables
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)This paper proves a new representation theorem for domains with both discrete and continuous variables. The result generalizes Debreu's well-known representation theorem on connected domains. A strengthening of the standard continuity axiom is used in ...
