The value of life and the value of population.
"This paper first distinguishes structured and unstructured approaches to valuing life. The unstructured approach bases its valuations on people's raw preferences, whereas the structured approach imposes a theoretical framework about the structure of value. The paper recommends the structured approach. This opens the way to considering the value of adding people to the population. The paper examines a common intuition that adding people is not in itself valuable, and explains the difficulties this intuition encounters."
Broome
J
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D001519:Behavior; D003710:Demography; D004989:Ethics; D008722:Methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D011584:Psychology; D012945:Social Values
Behavior; Demographic Factors; Ethics; Methodological Studies; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Psychological Factors; Theoretical Studies; Value Orientation; World