Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, David J. Donaldson

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
Exploring how different ideas of the common good may be compared, contrasted and ranked.

Main 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.

Table of contents:
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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780521825511
• ISBN-10: 0521825512
• Artikelnr.: 22275522

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.