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This paper provides a welfare analysis of trade liberalization based upon the moral principles of utilitarianism. The … history of the moral philosophy of utilitarianism is described including its introduction into what became known as Cambridge …
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States wealth transfer tax system from within a particular philosophical perspective. The article examines the utilitarianism … of John Stuart Mill and his philosophical progeny and distinguishes the philosophical approach of utilitarianism from … utilitarian criteria for ethical action, the article goes on to think through what Mill's utilitarianism says about the taxation …
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We provide a microfoundation for a weighted utilitarian social welfare function that reflects common moral intuitions about interpersonal comparisons of utilities. If utility is only ordinal, interpersonal comparisons are meaningless. Nonetheless, economics often adopts utilitarian welfare...
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A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with different population levels. Such a criterion is essential to resolve the optimal population problem, i.e., the tradeoff between population size and the welfare of each person...
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