Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de sciences économiques - Travaux et publications by Subject "Welfarism"

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  • Anonymous Single-Profile Welfarism 

    Blackorby, Charles; Bossert, Walter; Donaldson, David (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 ...

  • Consistent Relations 

    Bossert, Walter (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006)
    Consistency, a natural weakening of transitivity introduced in a seminal contribution by Suzumura (1976b), has turned out to be an interesting and promising concept in a variety of areas within economic theory. This paper summarizes its recent applications ...

  • Population Ethics 

    Blackorby, Charles; Bossert, Walter; Donaldson, David (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 ...