title: The value of life and the value of population.
abstract: "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."
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Broome
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D003710:Demography; D004989:Ethics; D008722:Methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D011584:Psychology; D012945:Social Values
keywords: Behavior; Demographic Factors; Ethics; Methodological Studies; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Psychological Factors; Theoretical Studies; Value Orientation; World