Description: This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. The approach is, in the main, welfarist, basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever lived). The axiomatic method is employed, and topics investigated include: the measurement of individual well-being, social attitudes toward inequality of well-being, the main classes of population principles, principles that provide incomplete rankings, principles that rank uncertain alternatives, best choices from feasible sets, and applications. The chapters are divided, with mathematical arguments confined to the second part. The first part is intended to make the arguments accessible to a more general readership. Although the book can be read as a defense of the critical-level generalized-utilitarian class of principles, comprehensive examinations of other classes are included.
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EAN: 9780521532587
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ISBN: 9780521532587
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Book Title: Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare
Item Length: 22.6 cm
Number of Pages: 378 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: Economics
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 509 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, David J. Donaldson
Subject Area: Social Services, Human Biology
Item Width: 153 mm
Format: Paperback
