QUASI-ORDERINGS AND POPULATION ETHICS

Authors
BLACKORBY C BOSSERT W DONALDSON D
Citation
C. Blackorby et al., QUASI-ORDERINGS AND POPULATION ETHICS, Social choice and welfare, 13(2), 1996, pp. 129-150
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods",Economics
Journal title
Social choice and welfare → ACNP
ISSN journal
01761714
Volume
13
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
129 - 150
Database
ISI
SICI code
0176-1714(1996)13:2<129:QAPE>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Population ethics contains several principles that avoid the repugnant conclusion. These rules rank all possible alternatives, leaving no ro om for moral ambiguity. Building on a suggestion of Parfit, this paper characterizes principles that provide incomplete but ethically attrac tive rankings of alternatives with different population sizes. All of them rank same-number alternatives with generalized utilitarianism.