THE WELFARE ECONOMICS OF POPULATION |
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| Authors: | BROOME JOHN |
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| Institution: | Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews Fife KY16 9AL |
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| Abstract: | Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to thepopulation if it brings no benefits to people already living:creating people is morally neutral in itself. This paper examinesthe difficulties of incorporating this intuition into a coherenttheory of the value of population. It takes three existing theorieswithin welfare economics—average utilitarianism, relativistutilitarianism, and critical-level utilitarianism—andconsiders whether they can satisfactorily accommodate the intuitionthat creating people is neutral. |
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