Bovens, Luc; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Economics and Philosophy 28 (2012) 02, pp. 217-249
We consider a special set of risky prospects in which the outcomes are either life or death (or, more generally, binary utilities). There are various alternatives to the <italic>utilitarian</italic> objective of minimizing the expected loss of lives in such prospects. We start off with the two-person case with...