Most moral and political theories require us to make interpersonal comparisons of welfare. This poses a challenge to the popular view that welfare consists in the satisfaction of …
H Greaves, H Lederman - Philosophy and Phenomenological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
An important objection to preference‐satisfaction theories of well‐being is that these theories cannot make sense of interpersonal comparisons of well‐being. A tradition dating …
Wellbeing describes how good life is for the person living it. Wellbeing comes in degrees. Subjective theories of wellbeing maintain that for objects or states of affairs to benefit us, we …
S Schmidt - Available at SSRN 3404991, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
Economic policy decisions require comparisons of the gains and losses from policy choices to different people. If those gains can be valued in monetary terms, than all that is needed is …