Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 9 (2014) 3, pp. 629-650
We contribute to population ethics by proposing and axiomatizing rank-discounted critical-level generalized … utilitarianism (RDCLU). Population ethics is needed for evaluation of policies, e.g., concerning climate change, where population … avoids serious objections raised against other variable population criteria. In particular, it escapes both the Repugnant …