It com- pares, in positive political economy terms, the normative principles of utilitarianism and Rawlsianism, and shows that lockdown by fiat is a policy that is closer to a max- imin equity criterion rather than to a utilitarian one. The work moreover shows, also with the aid of a ...
The principles that underlie decision- making, and how these principles are deployed through decision tools and metrics, constitute an implicit utilitarianism. This utilitarianism, in spite of the use of multiplecriteria, recreates problems commonly associated with monetary valuation, namely, it creates ...