A new result on the impossibility of avoiding both the repugnant and sadistic conclusions

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2023.111306MaRDI QIDQ6139996zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Susumu Cato, Ko Harada

Publication date 19 January 2024

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111306

zbMATH Keywords

utilitarianismvariable populationrepugnant conclusionidentity problemsadistic conclusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Utility theory (91B16)

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