In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-
generation models of fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities …

Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the
distribution of health care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our …

In this century a number of events could extinguish humanity. The probability of these events
may be very low, but the expected value of preventing them could be high, as it represents …

People are often faced with decisions that involve weighing the lives of some people against
the lives of others, or weighing lives against other goods. This book aims to develop a moral …

A search is under way for a theory that can accommodate our intuitions in population
axiology. The object of this search has proved elusive. This is not surprising since, as we …

What do we owe to our descendants? How do we balance their needs against our own? Tim
Mulgan develops a new theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule …

The economic value of environmental goods is commonly determined using the concepts of
willingness to pay (WTP) or willingness to accept (WTA). However, the WTP/WTA observed …

Some people are worse off than others. Does this fact give rise to moral concern?
Egalitarianism claims that it does, for a wide array of reasons. It is one of the most important …

In Arrovian [Arrow (1951, 1963)] social choice theory, the objective is to construct a social
welfare function~ a map** which assigns a social preference ordering to each admissible …

ABSTRACT Arrhenius, G. 2000: Future Generations: A Challenge for Moral Theory. viii+
234#? pp. Uppsala. For the last thirty years or so, there has been a search underway for a …