and argue that instead utilitarian, i.e. cardinal social choice theory is relevant for voting. I show that justifications …

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

-level generalized utilitarianism (PARDCLU), through a key axiom that requires that the social welfare order both be ethical and satisfy … discounted utilitarianism, and avoids objections that have been raised against other ethical criteria. PARDCLU is shown to handle … situations with positive probability of human extinction, and is linked to decision theory by yielding rank-dependent expected …

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 …

emerging social choice theory -, two conflicting ways of dealing with mathematical tools in welfare economics and, above all …