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 …

how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …

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 …

out the space between critical-level utilitarianism and (a version of) critical-level leximin. Moreover, it satisfies many …

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 … other policy issues with long-run consequences. We illustrate how PARDCLU yields rank-dependent expected utilitarianism …

out the space between critical-level utilitarianism and (a version of) critical-level leximin. Moreover, it satisfies many … when the critical level is zero. -- social evaluation ; population ethics ; critical-level utilitarianism ; social …