2 papers
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…
econ.TH2024
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"…