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Identity, ethics and behavioural welfare economics

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  • Ivan Mitrouchev

    (LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Valerio Buonomo

Abstract

Multiple selves is a conventional assumption in behavioural welfare economics for modelling intrapersonal well-being. Yet an important question is which self has normative authority over others. In this paper, we advance an argument for what we call the ‘ontological approach' to personal identity in behavioural welfare economics. According to this approach, ethical questions – such as which preference should be granted normative authority over another – can be informed by the ontological criterion of personal persistence, which aims at determining what it takes for an individual to persist from one time to another.

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  • Ivan Mitrouchev & Valerio Buonomo, 2023. "Identity, ethics and behavioural welfare economics," Post-Print hal-04129256, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04129256
    DOI: 10.1017/S0266267123000123
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    Keywords

    Multiple selves; ontology; preference reversals; time; well-being; B41; D15; I31;
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    JEL classification:

    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
    • D15 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being

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