Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65381 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3958
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
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
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