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Price-Independent Welfare Prescriptions and Population Size

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Blackorby, C.
Bossert, W.
Donaldson, D.

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This note investigates the extension of Roberts' price-independent welfare prescriptions to alternatives in which population size and composition can vary. We show that ethically unsatisfactory orderings result. Suppose that a single person is to be added to a population that is unaffected in utility terms. Either all such additions must be regarded as bad or some expansions in which the added person's life is not worth living must be ranked as social improvements.

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Paper provided by UBC Department of Economics in its series UBC Departmental Archives with number 97-22.

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Date of creation: 1997
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Keywords: POPULATION ; SOCIAL WELFARE;

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D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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  3. Roberts, Kevin, 1980. "Price-Independent Welfare Prescriptions," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 13(3), pages 277-97, June.
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  4. Roberts, Kevin W S, 1980. "Possibility Theorems with Interpersonally Comparable Welfare Levels," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 47(2), pages 409-20, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  9. Walter Bossert,, . "Welfarism and Information Invariance," Discussion Papers 97/11, University of Nottingham, School of Economics.
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  10. Slivinski, Alan D., 1983. "Income distribution evaluation and the law of one price," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 20(1), pages 103-112, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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