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We argue that economics – as the scientific method of analyzing trade-offs – can be helpful (and may even be indispensable) for assessing the trade-off between intergenerational and intragenerational justice. Economic analysis can delineate the “opportunity set” of politics with respect...
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In diesem Beitrag geht es um subjektive Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen, nicht Gerechtigkeit an sich, da erstere im …
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theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted … between different fairness principles. Fairness theories that are based on the assumption that players compare their own … the defectors. Fairness theories assuming that players aim to minimize payoff inequalities cannot explain the fact that …
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statistical tests for fairness within well-defined income distribution generating processes and a well specified notion of … fairness. We find that the likelihood ratio (LR) test for fairness versus unfairness within two such processes are proportional … their values differently – to compare them to critical values for a test of the null hypothesis of fairness, or to use them …
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This paper explores the problem of envy (“sadness at another's good”) from both theological and economic perspectives. The theological analysis helps show why envy is a perennial feature of human existence and an ongoing problem for ordered and flourishing social life. The economic analysis...
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A popular sentiment is that fairness is inexorably subjective and incapable of being determined by objective standards …
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disamenities have failed to take into account self-selection behavior of individuals or groups of individuals. For instance, when …
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We show that people manipulate their attitudes towards ambiguity when doing so allows them to behave more self …
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In their book Climate Change Justice, Eric Posner and David Weisbach advocate adoption of an economically optimal climate treaty coupled with foreign aid (to handle distributional issues with poor countries) and increased investment (to transfer funds to future generations harmed by climate...
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for redistribution. The findings are supported by the respondents' fairness concerns. Estimated effects exhibit … substantial heterogeneity. There is systematic variation among fairness concerns with respect to income and health, which are … favor of redistribution. Results suggest that income- and health-dependent fairness concerns exist …
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