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100 1 0 _aZuber, Stéphane
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245 0 0 _aPopulation Ethics: The Value of Rank-dependent Welfare Criteria
260 _c2016.
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520 _aThis paper discusses the advantages of rank-dependent welfare criteria for population ethics. Population ethics is concerned with the evaluation and the comparison of allocations when population size is variable. It is shown that rank-dependent criteria may be immune to several drawbacks faced by (generalized) utilitarian criteria, which are usually considered in that field.
786 0 _nRevue économique | 68 | 1 | 2016-12-14 | p. 73-96 | 0035-2764
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-economique-2017-1-page-73?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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