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THE WELFARE ECONOMICS OF POPULATION

Name: THE WELFARE ECONOMICS OF POPULATION
Creator: Broome, John
Keywords: Philosophy, 8. Economic growth, 0502 economics and business, 05 social sciences, 06 humanities and the arts, 0603 philosophy, ethics and religion

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 Apr 1996 United Kingdom Publisher:Oxford University Press (OUP)Journal:Oxford Economic Papers, volume 48, pages 177-193 (issn: 0030-7653, eissn: 1464-3812,

Authors: Broome, John;

doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a028564

THE WELFARE ECONOMICS OF POPULATION

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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. (EXCERPT)

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United Kingdom

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University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
University of Oxford
United Kingdom

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Philosophy

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