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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...