Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006
This paper discusses the standard welfare economics assumption anthropocentric welfarism, i.e. that only human well … anthropocentrism is strongly rejected, on average. However, most people appear to have a consequentialistic ethics, in line with … conventional welfare economics. The moral philosophical literature is also briefly reviewed, and here too anthropocentrism receives …