Journal article
The welfare economics of population
- Abstract:
- Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to people already living: creating people is morally neutral in itself. This paper examines the difficulties of incorporating this intuition into a coherent theory of the value of population. It takes three existing theories within welfare economics - average utilitarianism, relativist utilitarianism, and critical-level utilitarianism - and considers whether they can satisfactorily accommodate the intuition that creating people is neutral.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Oxford Economic Papers More from this journal
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 177-193
- Publication date:
- 1996-01-01
- EISSN:
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1464-3812
- ISSN:
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0030-7653
- Language:
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English
- Subjects:
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ora:4302
- Deposit date:
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2010-10-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright date:
- 1996
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