associate efficiency, fairness, and the intrinsic quality of social relations. …

welfare in human decision making. At the same time, models of inequality averse agents fail to explain the experimental data … of individuals who reduce their payoff below a fair split in order to maximize social welfare. This paper presents a … fairness if welfare is thereby gained. It also establishes a unique link between altruism and interest in social welfare in the …

indebtedness (retro-gifts). Normative opinions about societies, and in particular about justice, imply and require altruism and …

considerations to explain the development or sustainability of these transfers. Such is the implicit ambition of efficiency theories … of the Welfare State. However, while these theories may be suited for explaining the development of public insurance or … explained by pure efficiency motives, but less than what would be predicted under the extended insurance hypothesis. One …

main idea is that any method of ascribing welfare to an individual as a function of choice is subjective, and depends on … an individual welfare functional as a mapping from stochastic choice functions into weak orders. A stochastic choice … may also be incorporated into the model). We require that for any two alternatives x and y, if our individual welfare …

implications of various philosophical theories of justice for the way in which a welfare economist might appraise a particular … when discussing distributive justice. Here however we have distinguished notions of justice which are essentially … health opportunity set), from theories which require the social welfare function (or maximand) to have particular properties …