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social norm, which embodies societal attitudes towards distributive justice. Results for optimal redistributive taxation in …
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This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. A … formula is derived that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients … monetary value of justice in the United States is about one fifth of GDP. We find no evidence that the value of justice varies …
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directly measure religious organizations’ power to shape human decision making. We employ an objective measure of voters …
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We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation …, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via … an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of power and show that there is no monotonic relationship between these …
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of power. In the second part, we demonstrate that reported subjective well-being of the population is much higher in …
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evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations …
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We augment a standard tax model by concerns about tax equity: people get upset when labour is taxed more heavily than capital. Even the slightest concern for tax equity invalidates the common recommendation for small open economies that capital should remain tax-exempt. This holds for exogenous...
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In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...
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An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …
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The internet has given birth to an expanding number of shared virtual reality spaces, with a collective population well into the millions. These virtual worlds exhibit most of the traits we associate with the Earth world: economic transactions, interpersonal relationships, organic political...
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