J. S. Mill's Liberal Principle and Unanimity

• Tác giả: Edward J Green
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 192.7 British Isles
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2019
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 162712

Tóm tắt

Comment: 24 pagesThe broad concept of an individual's welfare is actually a cluster of related specific concepts that bear a "family resemblance" to one another. One might care about how a policy will affect people both in terms of their subjective preferences and also in terms of some notion of their objective interests. This paper provides a framework for evaluation of policies in terms of welfare criteria that combine these two considerations. Sufficient conditions are provided for such a criterion to imply the same ranking of social states as does Pareto's unanimity criterion. Sufficiency is proved via study of a community of agents with interdependent ordinal preferences.