JEL classification: C65, D63, D71, D81 Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 91B16

Philosophers and policy-makers concerned with the ethics, economics, and politics of development argue that the phenomenon of “adaptive preference” makes preference-utilitarian measures of well-being untenable. Poor women in the Global South, they suggest, adapt to deprivation and oppression and may come to prefer states of affairs that are not conducive to flourishing. This critique, however, ...

In this paper, we study consumption decisions under risk assuming a prioritarian social welfare function, namely a concave transformation of individual utility functions. Under standard assumptions, there is always more current consumption under ex ante prioritarianism than under utilitarianism. Thus, a concern for equity (in the ex ante prioritarian sense) means less concern for the risky futu...

In this paper, we have tried to point out the importance of problem moral integrity in ethical theory. The best way make an introduction weighing when it comes is analyze dispute initiated by Bernard Williams. Namely, a critique act utilitarianism, whose essential weight precisely on topic integrity. Williams conceived his objection as saying that there was no place for value within utilitarian...

The term ‘Happiness’ is considered as an emotional state which characterized by feelings of joy, satisfaction, contentment and fulfillment. According to Aristotle happiness comes in achieving all the goods regarding health, wealth, knowledge etc leads perfection human nature enrichment life through period a whole lifetime. In this present paper, basically I shall attempt concentrate on Mill’s c...

Television series carry the structural traces of society in which they are produced. The social, cultural and ideological values revealed to audience through characters portrayed on screen. TV discussed study examined as an indicator social life. sitcom named "Jet Sosyete", written by Gülse Birsel, is important production based utilitarian characters. This sitcom, reflects attitude relations ch...