of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility …

Undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergeneration justice has been questioned for different reasons: It has … allocation must involve discounting, and (2) that undiscounted utilitarianism subjects the present generation to heavy demands …-nologies) that undiscounted utilitarianism is so malleable that any efficient and non-decreasing allocation can be the unique optimum …

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

social norm, which embodies societal attitudes towards distributive justice. Results for optimal redistributive taxation in …

. Fiscal competition is associated with less income redistribution and a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, but …