Utilitarianism is the most prominent family of social welfare functions. We present three new axiomatic ….'s (1998) Expected Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism (ECLGU) is equivalent to a new axiom holding that it is better to … novel characterizations extend classic axiomatizations of utilitarianism from settings with either social risk or variable …

of benefit-cost analysis, utilitarianism, and prioritarianism in evaluating COVID-19-related policies. The relative … less aggressive control policies. Utilitarianism and prioritarianism, in that order, increasingly favor income … likely than utilitarianism or benefit-cost analysis to target young and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals in the …

people are plagued by irrational biases and inconsistencies. The author elucidates how these developments have led to a post-utilitarianism … on the scope of government intervention. -- behavioural economics ; utilitarianism ; government ; paternalism …

initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation … differences in the response to past cooperation of the partner. In higher intelligence subjects, cooperation after the initial … difference is absent. Cooperation of higher intelligence subjects is payoff sensitive, thus not automatic: in a treatment with …

BoS, with high and low payoff inequality. In PD, disclosure markedly hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players …

of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears … to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment …

mediated by differences in cognitive skills. Our design uses a Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, and we compare rates of cooperation … higher cooperation rates and profits than in separated groups (with consistent gains among lower IQ subjects and relatively … evolutionary game theory model, where higher IQ among subjects determines - through better working memory - a lower frequency of …