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This paper shows that, in a partially welfarist framework that permits discounting, per-period social evaluations can be consistent with a timeless social ordering only if social principles lead to the repugnant conclusion. The same result applies if per-period social evaluations are replaced by...
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This paper provides a survey of normative approaches to inequality measurement, to be published as a chapter in a volume of income inequality. We present general methods for deriving ethical inequality indexes from social-evaluation orderings such as the Atkinson-Kolm-Sen and Kolm procedures.
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This paper analyzes variable-population social-evaluation principles in a framework where outcomes are uncertain. In a static model, we provide characterizations of expected-utility versions of Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarian rules.
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Dans un modele a deux periodes on peut considerer que l'aide a l'etranger peut-etre definie soit en terme d'un bien a consommer soit en terme de controle des naissances. La taille de la population en deuxieme periode est endogene. Nous examinons l'affectation optimale de cette ressource rare en...
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