2 papers
econ.TH2025
A Dominance Argument Against Incompleteness
Christian Tarsney, Harvey Lederman, Dean Spears
This article presents a new argument against many forms of moral and prudential value incompleteness. The argument relies on two central principles: (i) a weak "negative dominance"…
econ.GN2024
Maximal Social Welfare Relations on Infinite Populations Satisfying Permutation Invariance
Jeremy Goodman, Harvey Lederman
We study social welfare relations (SWRs) on an infinite population. Our main result is a new characterization of a utilitarian SWR as the \emph{largest} SWR (in terms of subset whe…