This paper compares and contrasts the various attributes of two ethical systems, utilitarianism and property rights …. Utilitarianism is the ethical position taken by the vast majority of economists as well as politicians and bureaucrats. However, upon …

believe utilitarianism to be insufficiently egalitarian. Second, utilitarianism does not give independent weight to other …

the non-existence of a natural 1-to-1 correspondence between people when alternatives have different population structures … how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …, separability, and population ethics. We relate it to other strongly anonymous utilitarian criteria and demonstrate its …

different populations or population sizes …Principles for the social evaluation of states of affairs with different population sizes, such as Classical … Utilitarianism, often lead to the repugnant conclusion. Those that avoid it may have other ethically unattractive features. Average …

Critical-level (CL) utilitarianism with both fixed and variable critical levels is applied to the problem of … variable population sizes. In our two-region model, the recipients of welfare payments are two classes of mobile "poor" workers …

which population size changes. Drawing on recent work in population ethics I propose an alternative welfare framework with …