Question #47900

Utilitarianism suggests that the government should choose policies that maximize the total utility of everyone in society by ?


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Answer: Utilitarianism suggests that the government should choose policies that maximize the total utility of everyone in society by redistributing income from rich to poor because due to the diminishing marginal utility of income, taking a pound from the rich reduces their utility by less than the gain in utility generated by giving a pound to the poor.

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