• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Escaping the repugnant conclusion: Rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population
  • Contributor: Asheim, Geir B. [Author]; Zuber, Stéphane [Author]
  • imprint: Munich: Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), 2012
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Bevölkerung ; critical-level utilitarianism ; Q56 ; D63 ; Klimaschutz ; social evaluation ; Utilitarismus ; H43 ; Soziale Wohlfahrtsfunktion ; Soziale Diskontrate ; D71 ; social discounting ; population ethics
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  • Description: Evaluation of climate policies and other issues requires a variable population setting where population is endogenously determined. We propose and axiomatize the rank-discounted critical-level utilitarian social welfare order. It is shown to fill out the space between critical-level utilitarianism and (a version of) critical-level leximin. Moreover, it satisfies many conditions and principles used to evaluate variable population criteria. In particular, it avoids the repugnant conclusion even when the critical level is zero.
  • Access State: Open Access