The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 717-756, May 2026.Abstract We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts imposed, our estimates imply 8–10 per cent increases in mortality at ages 1–4 years and 2–4 per cent falls in rural expectation of life at birth.
David Green +3 more
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Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda
Information Systems Journal, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 364-385, May 2026.ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello +5 more
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Why Paternalism Is Wrong (When It Is Wrong)
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 578-593, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes a novel reinterpretation of the familiar, if inchoate, thought that paternalism offends against an ideal of personal sovereignty. The central idea is that (competent) persons have a particular kind of normative power. Just as each of us has the right to control how others are permitted to use our bodies or property, we each
Jonathan Parry
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A Fundamental Objection to Tax Equity Norms: A Call for Utilitarianism [PDF]
Anti-utilitarian norms often are used in assessing tax systems. Two motivations support this practice. First, many believe utilitarianism to be insufficiently egalitarian.
Louis Kaplow
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Inkomensongelijkheid en geluk in landen [PDF]
, 2007 All modern nations reduce income differences to some extent, and as a result there is an ongoing discussion about what degree of income inequality is acceptable. In this discussion libertarians oppose egalitarians and a principled consensus between these
Berg, M.C. (Maarten)
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An Attempt to Reshape Capitalism’s Image
, 2012 John Stuart Mill claimed to be a disciple of both Jeremy Bentham and David Ricardo. This was a strange proclamation because each man advocated a competing theory of value; Bentham’s utilitarianism laid the foundation for the utility theory of value and ...
Nichols, Ross A.
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Translation invariance when utility streams are infinite and unbounded [PDF]
The axiom translation invariance consists in asserting the invariance of the ranking of two utility streams if one applies the same translation to both. This axiom is significant in the characterization of utilitarian criteria in finite dimension.
Mabrouk, Mohamed
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The Decision Process Scale (DPS): Self-report measures of reliance on rules, cost-benefit reasoning, intuition, and deliberation in (moral) decision-making. [PDF]
Behav Res MethodsCheung V, Maier M, Lieder F.
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Bentham's Frigidarium: Utilitarianism and Food Preservation [PDF]
, 1997 Cohen, D. L.
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The German translation of the Oxford utilitarianism scale: Validation and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the observations. [PDF]
PLoS OneAmbrasė A +4 more
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