Escaping the repugnant conclusion: Rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population

DOI10.3982/TE1338zbMath1395.91356MaRDI QIDQ4585988

Geir B. Asheim, Stéphane Zuber

Publication date: 11 September 2018

Published in: Theoretical Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

critical-level utilitarianismpopulation ethicssocial discountingsocial evaluation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical economics (91B99)

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