广义功利主义与哈桑尼的无偏观察者定理

Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi's Impartial Observer Theorem

Econometrica · 2010
被引 67
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

研究了哈桑尼无偏观察者定理中身份彩票与结果彩票的区分,提出广义功利主义可容纳不同风险态度和公平关切,而要求两者无差异则导出传统功利主义的新公理化。

Abstract

Harsanyi's impartial observer must consider two types of lotteries: imaginary identity lotteries (“accidents of birth”) that she faces as herself and the real outcome lotteries (“life chances”) to be faced by the individuals she imagines becoming. If we maintain a distinction between identity and outcome lotteries, then Harsanyi-like axioms yield generalized utilitarianism, and allow us to accommodate concerns about different individuals' risk attitudes and concerns about fairness. Requiring an impartial observer to be indifferent as to which individual should face similar risks restricts her social welfare function, but still allows her to accommodate fairness. Requiring an impartial observer to be indifferent between identity and outcome lotteries, however, forces her to ignore both fairness and different risk attitudes, and yields a new axiomatization of Harsanyi's utilitarianism.

广义功利主义身份彩票结果彩票