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Moral transgressions by groups : what drives individual voting behavior?

Feess, Eberhard; Kerzenmacher, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2020

We conduct an experiment where subjects are matched in groups of three and vote on a moral transgression. Analyzing different voting rules, the frequency of votes for the moral transgression increases with the number of votes required for it. This effect persists when considering pivotal votes...

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Sustainability and discounted utilitarianism in models of economic growth

Asheim, Geir B.; Mitra, Tapan - 2009

Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU). SDU respects the interests of future generations and resolves...

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Surviving the Titanic disaster : economic, natural and social determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

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A complete and strongly anonymous leximin relation on infinite streams

Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - 2011

Various extensions of the leximin order to the infinite dimensional setting have been suggested. They relax completeness and strong anonymity. Instead, by removing sensitivity to generations at infinite rank this paper defines a complete and strongly anonymous leximin relation on infinite...

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Responsibility and redistribution : the case of first best taxation

Tungodden, Bertil - 2001

It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors within our control are partly determined by factors beyond our control. In this paper, we suggest that one plausible view is to keep us responsible for the parts of the...

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Probability adjusted rank-discounted utilitarianism

Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - 2014

We propose and axiomatize probability adjusted rank-discounted critical-level generalized utilitarianism (PARDCLU). We thus generalize rank-discounted utilitarianism (RDU) (proposed by Zuber and Asheim, 2012) to variable population and risky situations and thereby take important steps towards...

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Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism

Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - 2011

Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...

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Evaluating climate policies by the Pareto principle : efficiency when future identities are unobservable

Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022

Climate change is an externality since those who emit greenhouse gases do not pay the long-term negative consequences of their emissions. In view of the resulting inefficiency, it has been claimed that climate policies can be evaluated by the Pareto principle. However, climate policies lead to...

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Infinite population utilitarian criteria

Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022

We examine utilitarian criteria for evaluating profiles of wellbeing among infinitely many individuals. Motivated by the non-existence of a natural 1-to-1 correspondence between people when alternatives have different population structures, with a different number of people in each generation,...

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Level r consensus and stable social choice

Mahajne, Muhammad; Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Volij, Oscar - 2014

We propose the concept of level r consensus as a useful property of a preference profile which considerably enhances … the stability of social choice. This concept involves a weakening of unanimity, the most extreme form of consensus. It is … shown that if a preference profile exhibits level r consensus around a given preference relation, the associated majority …

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