Video recordings of lectures

Further Literature 

On social welfare

• Section 4 of Marc Fleurbaey, “Normative Economics and Economic Justice”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 

• Section 4 of Christian List, “Social Choice Theory”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 

• John A. Weymark, in “Social welfare functions”,  pp.126-159 of  The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy .
  (Here is a much smaller PDF file but with poor typesetting.)

On population ethics

• Hilary Greaves,  “Population axiology.” Philosophy Compass 12, no. 11 (2017): e12442.

• Walter Bossert, “Anonymous welfarism, critical-level principles, and the repugnant and sadistic conclusions”, pp.63-85 of The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics 

• Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, and David Donaldson, “Population Ethics”, Chapter 20 (pp.483-500) of The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice

• Gustaf Arrhenius, Jesper Ryberg, and Torbjörn Tännsjö, “The Repugnant Conclusion”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .

• John Broome, "The well-being of future generations",  pp.901-928 of The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy.

Further literature (for term paper)

• Richard Chappell, Darius Meissner and William MacAskill (2024), An Introduction to Utilitarianism: From Theory to Practice, Hackett Publishing. [FREE ONLINE]

• Kohei Kamaga (2020). Social Welfare Evaluation and Intergenerational Equity, Springer: Singapore. [FREE ONLINE]

• Claude d'Aspremont and Louis Gevers. “Social welfare functionals and interpersonal comparability.”   Chapter 10 (pp. 459-541)  of Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Kotaro Suzumura, eds. Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare. Volume 1. Elsevier, 2002.

• Charles Blackorby,  Walter Bossert, and David Donaldson. “Utilitarianism and the theory of justice.” Chapter 11 (pp. 543-596)  of Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 1 (op. cit.) 

• John E. Roemer, Theories of distributive justice. Harvard University Press, 1996.

• Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Kotaro Suzumura, eds. Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare. Volume 2. Elsevier, 2010.

• Salvador Barbera, Peter Hammond, and Christian Seidl, eds. Handbook of Utility Theory: Volume 1: Principles.  Springer, 1998.

• Salvador Barbera, Peter Hammond, and Christian Seidl, eds. Handbook of Utility Theory: Volume 2: Extensions. Springer, 2004.

• Other articles in The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy (op. cit.), The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (op. cit.), The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice (op. cit.),  Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 1 (op. cit.) and  The Open Handbook of Formal Epistemology (op. cit.).