Evaluating risky prospects: : the distribution view

• Autores: Luc Bovens
• Localización: Analysis, ISSN-e 1467-8284, Vol. 75, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 243-253
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Risky prospects represent policies that impose different types of risks on multiple people. I present an example from food safety. A utilitarian following Harsanyi's Aggregation Theorem ranks such prospects according to their mean expected utility or the expectation of the social utility. Such a ranking is not sensitive to any of four types of distributional concerns. I develop a model that lets the policy analyst rank prospects relative to the distributional concerns that she considers fitting in the context at hand. I name this model �the Distribution View� posing an alternative to Parfit's Priority View for risky prospects.