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Utilitarianism and the Theory of Justice

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

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This paper, which is to be published as a chapter in the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, provides a survey of Utilitarianism as a theory of justice. We review and discuss axiomatizations of Utilitarian and Generalized-Utilitarian social-evaluation functionals in a welfarist framework. In addition, we analyze extensions of Utilitarian principles to variable-population environments and to situations in which the alternatives resulting from choices among feasible actions are not known with certainty.

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Paper provided by UBC Department of Economics in its series UBC Departmental Archives with number 99-20.

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Date of creation: 1999
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Keywords: SOCIAL CHOICE

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