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Titre |
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Utilitarianism is Implied by Social and Individual Dominance
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Résumé |
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The expectation of a sum of utilities is a core criterion for evaluating policies and social welfare under variable population and social risk. Our innovation is to show that a previously unrecognized combination of weak assumptions yields general versions of this criterion, both in fixed-population and in variable-population settings. We show that two dimensions of weak dominance (over risk and individuals) characterize a social welfare function with two dimensions of additive separability. So social expected utility emerges merely from social statewise dominance (given other axioms). Moreover, additive utilitarianism, in the variable-population setting, arises from a new, weak form of individual stochastic dominance with two attractive properties: It only applies to lives certain to exist (so it does not compare life against non-existence), and it avoids prominent egalitarian objections to utilitarianism by only applying if certain correlations are preserved. Our result provides a foundation for evaluating climate change, growth, and depopulation.
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Auteur(s)
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Johan E Gustafsson
1, 2, 3
, Dean Spears
1, 4, 3, 5
, Stéphane Zuber
6, 7, 8, 9
1
University of Texas at Austin [Austin]
( 74980 )
- 1 University Station Austin, Texas 78712
- États-Unis
2
University of York [York, UK]
( 124942 )
- Heslington, York, YO10 5DD
- Royaume-Uni
3
IFFS -
Institute for Futures Studies
( 1062486 )
- Contact IFFS : Box 591, SE-101 31 Stockholm - Visiting Address: Holländargatan 13
- Suède
4
IZA
( 23403 )
- Bonn
- Allemagne
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Institute for the Study of Labor ( 307883 )
5
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
( 1153973 )
- Royaume-Uni
6
CES -
Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
( 15080 )
- Maison des Sciences Économiques - 106-112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75647 Paris Cedex 13
- France
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UMR8174 ( 7550 )
;
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8174 ( 441569 )
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UP1 -
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
( 7550 )
- 12 place du Panthéon, 75231 Paris Cedex 05
- France
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CNRS -
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
( 441569 )
- France
9
PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne ( 7550 )
;
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École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
;
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
;
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École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
;
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École des Ponts ParisTech ( 301545 )
;
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( 441569 )
;
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Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement ( 577435 )
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Licence |
Paternité - Pas d'utilisation commerciale - Pas de modification
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Nom de la revue |
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Date de publication |
2023-11
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Description |
Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2023.16 - ISSN : 1955-611X
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Domaine(s) |
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Philosophie
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Éditeur scientifique |
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Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne - CES UMR 8174
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Mots-clés (JEL) |
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D - Microeconomics/D.D6 - Welfare Economics/D.D6.D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
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D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty/D.D8.D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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Référence interne |
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Voir aussi |
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https://centredeconomiesorbonne.cnrs.fr/publications/
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Mots-clés |
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Social risk, variable population, utilitarianism
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