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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...