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comparable. This allows us to conclude that the impartiality requirement cannot be used to decide between Rawls' and Harsanyi …
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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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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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We study the problem of choosing prize winners from among a group of experts when each expert nominates another expert for the prize. A nomination rule determines the set of winners on the basis of the profile of nominations; the rule is impartial if one's nomination never influences one's own...
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We search for impartiality in the allocation of objects when monetary transfers are not possible. Our main focus is … introducing randomization to object allocation problems is almost inevitable for achieving impartiality. …
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This article defines in a precise manner three different mechanisms to achieve impartiality in distributive justice and …
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There are good reasons to expect that citizens will appreciate local government more than central government. Sure enough, previous studies have found support for this assumption. Nevertheless, I will argue that it is theoretically far too simple to think that decentralization and citizen's...
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This article explains the emergence of an unique equilibrium resolution as the result of a compromise between two selves with different preferences. The stronger this difference is, the more generous the resolution gets. This result is in contrast to predictions of other models in which sinful...
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We study the problem of choosing prize winners from among a group of experts when each expert nominates another expert for the prize. A nomination rule determines the set of winners on the basis of the profile of nominations; the rule is impartial if one's nomination never influences one's own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472593
We search for impartiality in the allocation of objects when monetary transfers are not possible. Our main focus is … introducing randomization to object allocation problems is almost inevitable for achieving impartiality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487558