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| Title: | | Escaping the repugnant conclusion: Rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population  |
| Authors: | | Asheim, Geir B. Zuber, Stéphane |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo Working Paper: Public Choice 3958 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | social evaluation population ethics critical-level utilitarianism social discounting |
| JEL: | | D63 D71 H43 Q56 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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