Birth-date dependent population ethics: Critical-level principles
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Blackorby, C; Bossert, W; Donaldson, D
署名单位：
University of British Columbia; Aix-Marseille Universite; University of Nottingham
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-0531
DOI：
10.1006/jeth.1997.2333
发表日期：
1997
页码：
260-284
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摘要：
This paper investigates birth-date dependent principles for social evaluation in an intertemporal framework in which population size may vary. WP weaken the strong Pareto principle in order to allow individuals' birth dates to matter in establishing a social ordering. Using the axiom independence of the utilities of the dead, we characterize population principles with a recursive structure. If the individual substitution principle and an individual intertemporal equivalence axiom are added. birth-date dependent generalizations of the critical-level generalized utilitarian principles result. Stationarity leads to the special case of geometric discounting. (C) 1997 Academic Press.