TODAY: NE&EP webinar: Itzhak Gilboa on Lexitarian Population Ethics

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Dear all,

 

Our next NE&EP webinar will take place TODAY on Monday April 27^th at 5pm (Paris time), 11am EDT.

 

The speaker is Itzhak Gilboa (HEC). He will present:

Lexitarian Population Ethics: A Position-Based Axiomatic Approach, joint with Alyssa Rusonik and Larry Samuelson (abstract and link below) 

 

You can join the webinar with the following link: https://uio.zoom.us/j/63117225886

 

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

 

Maya Eden and Paolo Piacquadio

 

Title: “Lexitarian Population Ethics: A Position-Based Axiomatic Approach”  
Link: https://itzhakgilboa.weebly.com/uploads/8/3/6/3/8363317/rusonik_samuelson_gilboa_lexitarianism.pdf

Abstract: The paper makes three contributions to the preference aggregation and population ethics literatures. First, we propose the "lexitarian" criterion, a generalization of utilitarianism, according to which the social planner maximizes a vector of lexicographically-ranked utilitarian functions. Second, we suggest modeling the social choice problem using "positions" as a primitive, and axiomatize the lexitarian rule in this context. Third, we argue for an interpretation of the model in terms of the sympathetic paradigm, while prioritizing needs over wants.