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When utilitarianism dominates justice as fairness : an economic defence of utilitarianism from the original position

Chung, Hun - In: Economics and philosophy 39 (2023) 2, pp. 308-333

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Jeremy Bentham, the French Revolution, and the political economy of representation (1788 to 1789)

Guidi, Marco - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 17 (2010) 4, pp. 579-605

This paper examines the texts Jeremy Bentham wrote in 1788 and 1789 for the upcoming meeting of the Estates-General in France, focusing on the arrangement of a representative assembly. Bentham examined the problems of constitutional choice with an economic method, answering the fundamental...

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Utilitarianism, voting and the redistribution of income

Usher, Dan - 2017

Utilitarianism can be misplaced or ambiguous. As a prescription for individual behaviour, the injunction to seek the … can only be reconciled by compromise or by voting. The greatest number must be of citizens alive today, but governments …

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Speaking Platitudes to Power: Observing American Business Ethics in an Age of Declining Hegemony

Marens, Richard - In: Journal of Business Ethics 94 (2010) 2, pp. 239-253

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Semi-flexible majority rules for public good provision

Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol - 2020

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Utilitarianism, Voting and the Redistribution of Income

Usher, Dan - 2017

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Semi-Flexible Majority Rules for Public Good Provision

Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol - 2017

We introduce a two-stage, multiple-round voting procedure where the thresholds needed for approval require a qualified …

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Chapter 11 Utilitarianism and the theory of justice

Blackorby, Charles; Bossert, Walter; Donaldson, David - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 1, (pp. 543-596). 2002

, both in a static and in an intertemporal framework. Section 5 deals with the special case of utilitarianism. We review some … welfarism theorem to a variable-population framework and provide a characterization of critical-level generalized utilitarianism …

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Chapter 10 Social welfare functionals and interpersonal comparability

d'Aspremont, Claude; Gevers, Louis - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 1, (pp. 459-541). 2002

This chapter reviews the SWFL approach to social choice. It does not attempt to be a complete and systematic survey of existing results, but to give a critical assesment of the main axioms and their role in filtering the ethically relevant information, in particular the measurability and...

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Samuelson's social welfare function and Buchanan's critique : the struggle with normative science

Coker, David; Marciano, Alain - In: The European journal of the history of economic thought 30 (2023) 5, pp. 812-831

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