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Statistical Utilitarianism [PDF]
, 2016 Given a sufficiently large population satisfying certain statistical regularities, we show that it is often possible to accurately estimate the utilitarian social welfare function and identify the welfare-maximizing social alternative, even if we only have very noisy data about individual utility functions and interpersonal utility comparisons, and ...
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Utilitarianism and Heuristics [PDF]
The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2020 The paper develops an alternative to Expected UtilityAnalyses which are often too complex to use in Utilitarianism.
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Money-metric utilitarianism [PDF]
Social Choice and Welfare, 2011 Published - sswp1295 ...
Chambers, Christopher P. +1 more
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COVID-19 Involvement, Shopping Motives and Buying Behaviour: A German/ South African Comparison
Expert Journal of Marketing, 2022 This study aimed to investigate whether consumers’ personal involvement with the COVID-19 pandemic led to hedonic or utilitarian buying motives, and how these buying motives might encourage impulse or planned buying behaviour.
Karen CORBISHLEY +2 more
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Brain switches utilitarian behavior: does gender make the difference? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Decision often implies a utilitarian choice based on personal gain, even at the expense of damaging others. Despite the social implications of utilitarian behavior, its neurophysiological bases remain largely unknown.
Manuela Fumagalli +13 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld +5 more
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Utilitarian epistemology [PDF]
Synthese, 2011 Standard epistemology takes it for granted that there is a special kind of value: epistemic value. This claim does not seem to sit well with act utilitarianism, however, since it holds that only welfare is of real value. I first develop a particularly utilitarian sense of “epistemic value”, according to which it is closely analogous to the nature of ...
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Discounting, Beyond Utilitarianism [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 AbstractDiscounted utilitarianism and the Ramsey equation prevail in the debate on the discount rate on consumption. The utility discount rate is assumed to be constant and to reflect either the uncertainty about the existence of future generations or a pure preference for the present. The authors question the unique status of discounted utilitarianism
Zuber, Stéphane, Fleurbaey, Marc
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo +9 more
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