Charles Blackorby
Biographic Data
| ID | 962168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Blackorby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackorby |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKORBY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Interpersonal Comparisons of Well‐Being
This article provides a short survey of the use of interpersonal comparisons in social evaluation. The focus of this discussion is on the principles for social evaluation that are welfarist, or those principles that use information about individual well-being to rank alternatives. The article reviews some of the most important characterization results for the welfarist social evaluation principles. A basic notation, along with a formal definition…
CHAPTER 20 Population Ethics
This chapter reviews the welfarist approach to population ethics. This chapter provides an overview of the critical‐level utilitarian population principles and their generalized counterparts, examine important properties of these principles and discuss their relationships to other variable population social evaluation rules. The chapter illustrates the difficulties arising in population ethics by means of an impossibility result and present chara…
Hicksian Surplus Measures of Individual Welfare Change When There is Price and Income Uncertainty
Critical-Level Population Principles And The Repugnant Conclusion
The Pareto-Optima of Finite-Horizon OLG Models
Intertemporal Social Evaluation
A social-evaluation functional assigns a social ranking of alternatives to each information profile in its domain. In the classical multi-profile model of social choice, profiles are restricted to welfare information: all non-welfare information is implicitly assumed to be fixed. Because of this, the conventional approach does not allow us to discern the way in which the functional makes use of non-welfare information. For that, multiple non-welf…
Population Ethics and the Value of Life
Public policies frequently involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to prenatal care and the design of aid packages to developing countries. In order to assess the corresponding feasible choices on normative grounds, criteria for social evaluation that are capable of ranking alternatives with different populations and population sizes are required
Variable-population extensions of social aggregation theorems
Anonymous Single-profile Welfarism
Unit versus ad valorem taxes: Monopoly in general equilibrium
Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics
This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. The approach is, in the main, welfarist, basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever lived). The axiomatic method is employed, and topics investigated include: the measurement of individual well-being, social attitudes toward inequality of well-being, the main…
The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics
This article examines several families of population principles in the light of a set of axioms. In addition to the critical-level utilitarian, number-sensitive critical-level utilitarian, and number-dampened utilitarian families and their generalized counterparts, we consider the restricted number-dampened family and introduce two new ones: the restricted critical-level and restricted number-dependent critical-level families. Subsets of the rest…
Chapter 11 Utilitarianism and the theory of justice
Fiscal Federalism Revisited
Information Invariance in Variable‐Population Social‐Choice Problems
We examine the possibilities of extending Sen's taxonomy of fixed‐population information assumptions regarding the measurability and interpersonal comparability of individual utilities to social‐choice problems where the population may vary. It is shown that in order to avoid impossibility results, informationally more demanding assumptions than in the fixed‐population framework are required. We provide characterizations of variable‐population so…
Foreign aid and population policy: Some ethical considerations
Market demand curves and Dupuit–Marshall consumers' surpluses: A general equilibrium analysis
Critical-Level Utilitarianism and the Population-Ethics Dilemma
Information Invariance in Variable-Population Social-Choice Problems
Social Aggregation and the Expected Utility Hypothesis
Uncertainty and critical-level population principles
Birth-Date Dependent Population Ethics: Critical-Level Principles
Critical-Level Utilitarianism and the Population-Ethics Dilemma
Advances in technology have made it possible for us to take actions that affect the numbers and identities of humans and other animals that will live in the future. Effective and inexpensive birth control, child allowances, genetic screening, safe abortion, in vitro fertilization, the education of young women, sterilization programs, environmental degradation and war all have these effects
Intertemporally Consistent Population Ethics: Classical Utilitarian Principles
Welfarist population ethics uses information about the well-being (utilities) of the individuals who are alive in alternative states of affairs to make social evaluations. Most principles that produce orderings of alternative states employ social value functions of those utilities to generate social preferences.2 The most commonly used principles are classical utilitarianism, whose value function is the simple sum of utilities, and average utilit…
Consistency, Replication Invariance, and Generalized Gini Bargaining Solutions
Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation
Journal Article Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation Get access Charles Blackorby, Charles Blackorby University of British Columbia and GREQE, Marseille Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Donaldson David Donaldson University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 415, 1 November 199…
Extended Hicks Neutral Technical Change
Journal Article Extended Hicks Neutral Technical Change Get access Charles Blackorby, Charles Blackorby University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar C. A. Knox Lovell, C. A. Knox Lovell University of North Carolina and University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marie C. Thursby Marie C. Thursby Syracuse University Search for oth…
The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics
This article examines several families of population principles in the light of a set of axioms. In addition to the critical-level utilitarian, number-sensitive critical-level utilitarian, and number-dampened utilitarian families and their generalized counterparts, we consider the restricted number-dampened family and introduce two new ones: the restricted critical-level and restricted number-dependent critical-level families. Subsets of the rest…
Foreign aid and population policy: Some ethical considerations
Uncertainty and critical-level population principles
A Homiletic Exposition of the Expected Utility Hypothesis
The expected utility hypothesis is an important and celebrated result which allows some sense to be made of decision-making under uncertainty. It is however a result made up of many pieces. Here an attempt is made to make as clear as possible the assumptions used in deriving the expected utility hypothesis, and so to see which ones are needed to provide a rationale for each part of the hypothesis. First we show that the additive property of expec…
Market demand curves and Dupuit–Marshall consumers' surpluses: A general equilibrium analysis
Leximin population ethics
Extended Hicks Neutral Technical Change
Journal Article Extended Hicks Neutral Technical Change Get access Charles Blackorby, Charles Blackorby University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar C. A. Knox Lovell, C. A. Knox Lovell University of North Carolina and University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marie C. Thursby Marie C. Thursby Syracuse University Search for oth…
A Homiletic Exposition of the Expected Utility Hypothesis
The expected utility hypothesis is an important and celebrated result which allows some sense to be made of decision-making under uncertainty. It is however a result made up of many pieces. Here an attempt is made to make as clear as possible the assumptions used in deriving the expected utility hypothesis, and so to see which ones are needed to provide a rationale for each part of the hypothesis. First we show that the additive property of expec…
Can Risk-Benefit Analysis Provide Consistent Policy Evaluations of Projects Involving Loss of Life
Journal Article Can Risk-Benefit Analysis Provide Consistent Policy Evaluations of Projects Involving Loss of Life? Get access Charles Blackorby, Charles Blackorby University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Donaldson David Donaldson University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 383, 1 …
The validity of piecemeal second-best policy
Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation
Journal Article Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation Get access Charles Blackorby, Charles Blackorby University of British Columbia and GREQE, Marseille Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Donaldson David Donaldson University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 415, 1 November 199…
Household equivalence scales and welfare comparisons: A comment
The Conjunction of Direct and Indirect Separability
Multi-valued demand and rational choice in the two-commodity case
Intertemporally Consistent Population Ethics: Classical Utilitarian Principles
Welfarist population ethics uses information about the well-being (utilities) of the individuals who are alive in alternative states of affairs to make social evaluations. Most principles that produce orderings of alternative states employ social value functions of those utilities to generate social preferences.2 The most commonly used principles are classical utilitarianism, whose value function is the simple sum of utilities, and average utilit…
Consistency, Replication Invariance, and Generalized Gini Bargaining Solutions
Quasi-orderings and population ethics
Leximin population ethics
Birth-Date Dependent Population Ethics: Critical-Level Principles
Critical-Level Utilitarianism and the Population-Ethics Dilemma
Advances in technology have made it possible for us to take actions that affect the numbers and identities of humans and other animals that will live in the future. Effective and inexpensive birth control, child allowances, genetic screening, safe abortion, in vitro fertilization, the education of young women, sterilization programs, environmental degradation and war all have these effects
Critical-Level Utilitarianism and the Population-Ethics Dilemma
Information Invariance in Variable-Population Social-Choice Problems
Social Aggregation and the Expected Utility Hypothesis
Uncertainty and critical-level population principles
Information Invariance in Variable‐Population Social‐Choice Problems
We examine the possibilities of extending Sen's taxonomy of fixed‐population information assumptions regarding the measurability and interpersonal comparability of individual utilities to social‐choice problems where the population may vary. It is shown that in order to avoid impossibility results, informationally more demanding assumptions than in the fixed‐population framework are required. We provide characterizations of variable‐population so…
Foreign aid and population policy: Some ethical considerations
Market demand curves and Dupuit–Marshall consumers' surpluses: A general equilibrium analysis
Fiscal Federalism Revisited
Chapter 11 Utilitarianism and the theory of justice
The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics
This article examines several families of population principles in the light of a set of axioms. In addition to the critical-level utilitarian, number-sensitive critical-level utilitarian, and number-dampened utilitarian families and their generalized counterparts, we consider the restricted number-dampened family and introduce two new ones: the restricted critical-level and restricted number-dependent critical-level families. Subsets of the rest…
Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics
This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. The approach is, in the main, welfarist, basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever lived). The axiomatic method is employed, and topics investigated include: the measurement of individual well-being, social attitudes toward inequality of well-being, the main…
Economics (29 works) · Mathematics (22 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Mathematical economics (19 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Population (17 works) · Demography (13 works) · Microeconomics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Econometrics (11 works)