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dc.contributor.authorBlackorby, Charles
dc.contributor.authorBossert, Walter
dc.contributor.authorDonaldson, David
dc.date.accessioned2006-09-22T19:56:14Z
dc.date.available2006-09-22T19:56:14Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1866/491
dc.format.extent154456 bytes
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dc.publisherUniversité de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques.fr
dc.subjectPopulation Ethics
dc.subjectNeutrality
dc.subjectCritical Levels
dc.subject[JEL:D63] Microeconomics - Welfare Economics - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurementen
dc.subject[JEL:D71] Microeconomics - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associationsen
dc.subject[JEL:D63] Microéconomie - Économie du bien-être - Egalité, justice, inégalité et autres critères normatifs et mesuresfr
dc.subject[JEL:D71] Microéconomie - Analyse de prise de décision collective - Choix social, clubs, comitésfr
dc.titlePopulation Ethics and the Value of Life
dc.typeArticle
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversité de Montréal. Faculté des arts et des sciences. Département de sciences économiques
dcterms.abstractPublic 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.abstractDans 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.isPartOfurn:ISSN:0709-9231
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oaire.citationIssue2003-07


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