Population Ethics and the Value of Life
Published By: UNU-WIDER on eSS | Published Date: January, 28 , 2005Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the
composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to
prenatal care and the design of aid packages to developing countries. In order to assess
the corresponding feasible choices on normative grounds, criteria for social evaluation
that are capable of performing variable-population comparisons are required. They review
several important axioms for welfarist population principles and discuss the link
between individual well-being and the desirability of adding a new person to a given
society. [Research Paper No. 2005/03]
Author(s): Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, David Donaldson | Posted on: Dec 28, 2010 | Views(758) | Download (120)