3 papers
econ.TH2025
How to Avoid Both the Repugnant and Sadistic Conclusions without Dropping Standard Axioms in Population Economics
Norihito Sakamoto
This study investigates possibility and impossibility results of the repugnant and sadistic conclusions in population ethics and economics. The repugnant conclusion says that an en…
econ.TH2025
A Class of Practical and Acceptable Social Welfare Orderings That Satisfy the Principles of Aggregation and Non-Aggregation: Reexamination of the Tyrannies of Aggregation and Non-Aggregation
Norihito Sakamoto
This paper revisits impossibility results on the tyrannies of aggregation and non-aggregation. I propose two aggregation principles (quantitative aggregation and ratio aggregation)…
econ.TH2025
The Impossibility of the Almost Pareto Principles
Norihito Sakamoto
This study proposes a new efficiency requirement, a minimal almost weak Pareto principle, which says that x is socially better than y whenever the only one individual never prefers…