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Chapter Twenty-Two. Compensation and Responsibilityprotect
Marc, Fleurbaey; François, Maniquet - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 507-604). 2011
literature on this problem of compensation. This literature follows the distinction between the ethical principle of compensation … influence over agents’ outcomes of the characteristics that elicit compensation. According to the latter, a good resource … elicit compensation. The principle of responsibility can be interpreted as a libertarian principle of natural reward, or as a …
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Prevention against equality?
Fleurbaey, Marc; Ponthiere, Gregory - In: Journal of Public Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 68-84
acknowledged that an early death is a serious disadvantage, and that attention should be paid to the compensation of short …-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the compatibility of those two concerns: prevention against early death and compensation for … a concern for compensation. The reason is that if it is socially desirable to raise the number of survivors through …
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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers
Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006
This chapter examines the role of altruistic motives in the economic analysis of public social transfers, both from a positive and from a normative point of view. The positive question is to know whether we can fully neglect altruistic considerations to explain the development or sustainability...
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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Growth Maximizing Tax Rate for Uzbekistan
ABDULLAEV, Bekzod; KONYA, Laszlo - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 14 (2014) 1, pp. 59-72
Over the past two decades of transition from centrally planned economy to market economy Uzbekistan has experienced major structural changes. During this period the objectives of the tax policy were directed towards modernizing the tax system, increasing efficiency and reducing the tax burden on...
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Segmentation in the public sector – a reality or a chimera
Mitev, Petar - In: Economic Thought journal (2012) 5, pp. 123-143
The article studies the theoretical restrictions of public sector segmentation, derived from the concept of the purely public good, as well as from the views on revealing the public preferences thereto. It also highlights the weaknesses of the allocation efficiency and the available dialectical...
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A characterization of the uniform rule without Pareto-optimality
Ehlers, Lars H. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 447-452
We consider private good economies with single-peaked preferences. We show that the uniform rule is the only allocation rule satisfying omega-continuity, no-envy, and one-sided resource-monotonicity. This result strengthens a characterization of the uniform rule due to Thomson (Soc Choice Welf...
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Freedom of choice : John Stuart Mill and the tree of life
Alcalde-Unzu, Jorge; Ballester Oyarzun, Miguel A.; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 209-226
This essay deals with the notion and content of freedom of choice proposing a new set up and a new family of measures for this concept which is, indeed, an ethical value of paramount importance in a well ordered and open society. Following some ideas of John StuartMill, we propose that freedom...
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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting
Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015 - Revised version, April 2015
This paper analyzes responsibility attributions for outcomes of collective decision making processes. In particular, we ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process. We conduct an experimental voting game in which...
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Mediation in claims problems
Giménez-Gómez, José-Manuel; Peris, Josep E. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 4, pp. 357-375
Mediation is a dispute resolution process whereby agents reach a mutually acceptable agreement among different proposals that satisfy a set of principles. This paper provides a natural way of coming to such agreements in claims problems. In our approach, mediation combines (i) a set of fair...
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