The impossibility of a satisfactory population ethics

DOI10.1142/9789814368018_0001MaRDI QIDQ2946488zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gustaf Arrhenius

Publication date 17 September 2015

Published in Descriptive and Normative Approaches to Human Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814368018_0001

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14)

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