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Berger, Loïc; Emmerling, Johannes - 2017

(intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the discounted expected utilitarianism approach. We propose a general …

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Accidents of birth, life chances and the impartial observer

Grant, Simon (contributor); Kajii, Atsushi (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We confront two common objections to Harsanyi's impartial observer theorem; one to do with 'fairness', and the other to do with different individuals' having different attitudes toward risk. Both these objections can be accommodated if we drop the reduction axiom; in particular, if we...

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Accidents of Birth, Life Chances and the Impartial Observer

Grant, Simon; Kajii, Atsushi; Polak, Ben - 2003

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Accommodating Procedural Fairness When Harsanyi's Impartial Observer is a Utilitarian : An Axiomatization

Borah, Abhinash - 2015

We propose and axiomatically characterize, within Harsanyi's impartial observer setting, a utilitarian social welfare function (SWF) that can accommodate concerns for procedural fairness. Under our proposal, concerns for procedural fairness in social welfare assessments are inherited from...

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The limit of discounted utilitarianism

Jonsson, Adam; Voorneveld, Mark - 2014 - Date: March 21, 2014

This paper presents an infinite-horizon version of intergenerational utilitarianism that is both satisfactorily … complete and consistent. By studying discounted utilitarianism as the discount factor tends to one, we obtain a welfare … criterion --- limit-discounted utilitarianism --- that combines efficiency and the equal treatment of generations with …

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Utilitarianism for infinite utility streams: summable differences and finite averages

Jonsson, Adam; Voorneveld, Mark - 2014 - Date: March 21, 2014

This paper provides axiomatic descriptions of social welfare relations, defined on infinite streams of utility, that are consistent with the utilitarian criterion on subsets where maximizing aggregate utility has a clear interpretation: the streams, or their differences, are summable. Besides...

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A generalized representation theorem for Harsanyi's ("impartial") observer

Grant, Simon; Kajii, Atsushi; Polak, Ben; Safra, Zvi - In: Social choice and welfare 39 (2012) 4, pp. 833-846

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Equally-distributed equivalent utility, ex post egalitarianism and utilitarianism

Grant, Simon; Kajii, Atsushi; Polak, Ben; Safra, Zvi - In: Journal of economic theory 147 (2012) 4, pp. 1545-1571

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Generalized utilitarianism and Harsanyi's impartial observer theorem

Grant, Simon; Kajii, Atushi; Polak, Ben; Safra, Zvi - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 78 (2010) 6, pp. 1939-1971

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Sustainable recursive social welfare functions

Asheim, Geir B.; Mitra, Tapan; Tungodden, Bertil - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 49 (2012) 2, pp. 267-292

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