Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, David J. Donaldson

Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how different ideas of the common good may be compared, contrasted and ranked.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780521532587
• ISBN-10: 0521532582
• Artikelnr.: 20965830

Autorenporträt

Charles Blackorby is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is a co-author of Duality, Separability and Functional Structure and has published articles in social choice theory and welfare economics. Profssor Blackorby is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and has received awards for his research. His current research interests are social-choice theory, population ethics, welfare economics and optimal taxation issues in public economics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The measurement of individual well-being
3. Welfarist social evaluation
4. Fixed-population principles
5. Population principles
6. Characterizations and possibilities
7. Uncertainty and incommensurabilities
8. Independence and the existence of the dead
9. Temporal consistency
10. Choice problems and rationalizability
11. Applications.