. Recently economists' assumption of rational actors has come under sustained attack. Behavioural economics has suggested that … people are plagued by irrational biases and inconsistencies. The author elucidates how these developments have led to a post-utilitarianism …

-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks … adopted in the literature. We derive bounds for the estimated direct and indirect effects of visa policies and networks that …

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 …

utilitarianism, in the variable- population setting, arises from a new, weak form of individual stochastic dominance with two … avoids prominent egalitarian objections to utilitarianism by only applying if certain correlations are preserved. Our result …

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 …