The Greatest Unhappiness of the Least Number
The Greatest Unhappiness of the Least Number
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最少人数的最大不幸
DOI：
10.1007/s00355-017-1066-4
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura
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作者：
藤里 和樹;頼光 拓真;檀 寛成;安室 喜弘;Kiyama Shoichi and Satoshi Yamazaki;Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura
我们提出了边沁人最大幸福原则的另一种表述。对于通常可测量和个人间不可比较的效用，规则选择那些可行的替代方案，使最终拥有最大元素的个人数量最大化。这一规则等同于多数规则。此外，在罗尔斯最大最小原则的精神下，我们提出了最小最大不幸福原则。作为最大幸福原则的类比，最小不幸福原则在形式上等同于反多数原则。我们的主要结果是对最小不快乐原则的刻画。
We propose an alternative articulation of the Benthamite greatest-happiness-of-the-greatest-number principle. With ordinally measurable and interpersonally non-comparable utilities, the rule chooses those feasible alternatives that maximize the number of individuals who end up with their greatest element. This rule is tantamount to the plurality rule. Furthermore, in the spirit of Rawls’s maximin principle, we propose the greatest-unhappiness-of-the-least-number principle. In analogy to the greatest-happiness principle, the least-unhappiness principle is formally equivalent to the anti-plurality rule. Our main result is a characterization of the least-unhappiness principle.