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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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The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
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RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023 The article aims at revising Durkheim’s pejorative assessment of utilitarianhedonistic impulses as the reasons for the differentiation of labor in the consumerism perspective.
N. V. Goncharov
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz +2 more
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A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism [PDF]
A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient in converting income into utility. However, when individuals are concerned about their income falling behind the incomes of others, the
Jakubek, Marcin +2 more
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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While childhood vaccination programmes provide outstanding contributions to improving health, they can also pose challenges through the interactions between parents and healthcare. This paper focuses on the ethical dimensions of interactions between healthcare professionals and parents. Since the knowledge that professionals possess creates an
Mikael Sandlund +2 more
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Virtuous Organizations in the Age of AI: Relational Goods and Human Flourishing
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The integration of AI‐based systems in everyday work has given rise to augmented organizations, transforming traditional work paradigms and prompting new research questions concerning augmented work processes and their related ethical issues. Drawing upon the practice‐institution framework proposed by Alasdair MacIntyre, integrated with Donati'
Francesco Vincenzo Giarmoleo +3 more
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Utilitarianism or Welfarism: Does it Make a Difference? [PDF]
We show that it is possible to reconcile the utilitarian and welfarist principles under the requirement of unanimity provided that the set of profiles over which the consensus is attained is rich enough. More precisely, we identify a closedness condition
Nicolas Gravel, Patrick Moyes
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Utilitarianism Is a Form of Egalitarianism
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophyUtilitarianism is often contrasted with egalitarianism, and sometimes rejected for its alleged neglect of egalitarian concerns. Utilitarians, it appears, do not care who gets what or how we relate to one another, so long as overall well-being is ...
Nikhil Venkatesh
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The Impact of Utilitarianism on Management and Organization Knowledge [PDF]
اسلام و مدیریت, 2013 Moral philosophy consists of normative ethics and meta-ethics. Also normative ethics theories are divided into teleological and deontological. One of the most rooted teleological theories is utilitarianism developed by Bentham and Mill in the nineteenth ...
Amir Hoseinizadeh
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