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Consequentialism

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Adopting a consequentialist approach requires knowing the whole set of consequences of an action. If we assume the future is radically uncertain, which may be argued for several different reasons, this approach can be used only in an explicative way and not in a predictive one.

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  1. Champagne School of Management, Groupe ESC Troyes, Troyes, France

    David Moroz

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  1. MRE and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  2. Faculté d’Economie, Université de Montpellier and LAMETA-UMR CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  3. DiGSPES, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

  4. IEL, Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

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Moroz, D. (2019). Consequentialism. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_120

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