Blackorby, Charles; Bossert, Walter; Donaldson, David - University of British Columbia <Vancouver, British …; … - 1997
This note investigates the extension of Roberts' price-independent welfare prescriptions toalternatives in which population size and composition can vary. We show that ethicallyunsatisfactory orderings result. Suppose that a single person is to be added to a populationthat is unaected in utility...