Interpersonal comparisons with preferences and desires

Politics, Philosophy and Economics 18 (3):219-241 (2019)
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Most moral and political theories require us to make interpersonal comparisons of welfare. This poses a challenge to the popular view that welfare consists in the satisfaction of preferences or des...

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