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Gajdos, Thibault; Kandil, Feriel - HAL - 2008

comparable. This allows us to conclude that the impartiality requirement cannot be used to decide between Rawls' and Harsanyi …

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The Ignorant Observer

Gajdos, Thibault; Kandil, Feriel - HAL - 2006

Most prominent models of economic justice (and especially those proposed by Harsanyi and Rawls) are based on the … assumption that impartiality is required for making moral decisions. However, although Harsanyi and Rawls agree on that, and … furthermore agree on the fact that impartiality can be obtained under appropriate conditions of ignorance, they strongly disagree …

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Stock Ownership of Federal Judges and its Impact on Firms

Knill, April M.; Kindelsperger, Joseph "Fred"; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether and how litigant peer stock ownership by federal district judges affects characteristics of case outcomes for large corporate litigants. We find that industry-peer stock ownership by district judges is associated with the following outcomes for corporate litigants...

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Choosing inequality: how economic security fosters competitive regimes

Lenger, Alexander; Wolf, Stephan; Goldschmidt, Nils - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2020) 2, pp. 315-346

In a novel experimental design, we study how social immobility affects the choice among distributional schemes in an experimental democracy. We design a two-period experiment in which subjects first choose a distributional scheme by majority voting (“social contract”). Then subjects engage...

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Perfect competition in A.-R.-J. Turgot: A contractualist theory of just exchange

Menudo, José Manuel - 2010

This paper analyses one of Turgot's first economic essays, Plan d'un ouvrage sur le commerce, la circulation et l'intérêt de l'argent, la richesse des états (1753-4). Written prior to the appearance of physiocratic influence, it is Turgot's contribution to the movement of writing that bubbled...

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Ashamed to be Selfish

Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - 2009

We study a two-stage choice problem, where alternatives are allocations between the decision maker (DM) and a passive recipient. The recipient observes choice behavior in stage two, while stage one choice is unobserved. Choosing selfishly in stage two, in the face of a fairer available...

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Fair Innings : The Utilitarian and Prioritarian Value of Risk Reduction over a Whole Lifetime

Adler, Matthew D.; Ferranna, Maddalena; Hammitt, James K.; … - 2019

The social value of risk reduction (SVRR) is the marginal social value of reducing an individual’s fatality risk, as measured by some social welfare function (SWF). This is the linchpin concept for applying social welfare functions to the domain of fatality risk regulation. This Article...

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Luck, Choice and Responsibility – An Experimental Study of Fairness Views

Mollerstrom, Johanna; Reme, Bjorn-Atle; Sorensen, Erik - 2015

We conduct laboratory experiments where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby eliminating inequality and offsetting the consequences of controllable and uncontrollable luck. Some spectators go to the limits and equalize all or no inequalities, but many...

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Luck, Choice and Responsibility : An Experimental Study of Fairness Views

Mollerstrom, Johanna; Reme, Bjorn-Atle; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2015

We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby offsetting the consequences of controllable and uncontrollable luck. Some spectators go to the limits and equalize all or no inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation...

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Social Preferences Under Risk : Ex-Post Fairness vs. Efficiency

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2015

Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one's situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives equal...

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