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LIFE AND DEATH
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2015
Abstract:
What is the value of a life? How should we regard death? This paper uses the methods of economics to defend some of the views of Epicurus against the utilitarian approach that welfare economics takes for granted.
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