Prioritarianism: A response to critics

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Politics, Philosophy and Economics 18 (2):101-144 (2019)
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Prioritarianism is a moral view that ranks outcomes according to the sum of a strictly increasing and strictly concave transformation of individual well-being. Prioritarianism is ‘welfarist’ (namel...

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Nils Holtug
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Matthew D. Adler
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