The value of limited altruism
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The value of limited altruism
zbMATH Open document ID: 0996.91033
author: Charles Blackorby
author: Walter Bossert
author: David Donaldson
published in: Journal of Economic Theory
publication date: 2002-10-26T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors study the problem whether moving the weights on the utilities of others closer to the weight on the agent's own well-being will result in actions that have better consequences in the sense that a better state of affairs results according to the impartial value function. Section 2 is concerned with the pure distribution problem: a fixed amount of a single resource is to be distributed to the people in the different groups. Section 3 considers the general choice problem: group one has an arbitrary set of feasible actions, each of which corresponds to a feasible utility vector. In section 4 the authors propose another way to describe objective functions for agents whose altruism is limited. Finally, Section 5 discusses a number of variations on the results obtained in the earlier sections.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91B14
zbMATH DE Number: 1556609
zbMATH Keywords: social choice
zbMATH Keywords: altruism
zbMATH Keywords: consequentialism
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2113351054
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DOI: 10.1006/JETH.2000.2675
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1556609