Lives and well-being

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Part of book or chapter of book 01 Jan 1988 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Social Choice and Welfare, volume 5, pages 103-126 (issn: 0176-1714, eissn: 1432-217X,

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Authors: P. Dasgupta;

doi: 10.1007/bf00735756 , 10.1007/978-3-642-73816-6_2

Lives and well-being

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This article attempts to use the analytical framework of social choice theory for exploring the ethical foundations of population policies. It is argued that non-existence is not a state and therefore that different numbers problems are conceptionally different from same numbers problems that concern much theoretical welfare economics. By means of examples it is argued that we should not expect to find an overall ethical ordering of social states when the sizc of future generations is subject to choice.

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