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Selfish utilitarianism, neo-classical economics, the directive of short-term income maximization, and the decision tool of cost-benefit analysis fail to protect our species from the significant risks of too much consumption, pollution, or population. For a longer-term survival, humanity needs to...
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theory of ecological rationality. The main casualty of this rebuilding process is optimality. Once we view optimality as a …If we reassess the rationality question under the assumption that the uncertainty of the natural world is largely … formal implication of quantified uncertainty rather than an ecologically meaningful objective, the rationality question …
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theory of ecological rationality. The main casualty of this rebuilding process is optimality. Once we view optimality as a …If we reassess the rationality question under the assumption that the uncertainty of the natural world is largely … formal implication of quantified uncertainty rather than an ecologically meaningful objective, the rationality question …
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Is an assumption of bounded rationality needed to explain Social Security and other mandatory pension plans? In this … by behavioral economics. This methodology does not deviate from the neoclassical assumption of rationality but only …
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of efficiency, equity, and social rationality, combained with independence of beliefs and risk preferences in riskless …
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We extend the Rothschild and Stiglitz (1970, 1971) notion of increasing risk to families of random variables and in this way link their approach to the concept of stochastic processes which are increasing in the convex order. These processes have been introduced in seminal work by Strassen...
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The measurement of health disparities is a key component for the assessment of health systems. One aspect of these disparities - which hitherto has received limited attention - is the risk people face about their future health. This paper integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement...
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This paper studies the effect of deep recessions on intergenerational inequality by quantifying the welfare effects on households at different phases of the life cycle. Deep recessionary episodes are characterized by large declines in the prices of real and financial assets and in employment....
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Three determining factors for economic inequality are self-chosen effort, self-chosen risk, and external circumstances. The fairness people assign to inequalities due to effort and external circumstances is widely studied. Insights on the fairness of inequalities due to self-chosen effort and...
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The underlying idea behind the construction of indices of economic inequality is based on measuring deviations of various portions of low incomes from certain references or benchmarks, that could be point measures like population mean or median, or curves like the hypotenuse of the right...
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