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Liberty and the post-utilitarian society
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012
people are plagued by irrational biases and inconsistencies. The author elucidates how these developments have led to a post-utilitarianism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570846
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Liberty and the post-utilitarian society
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012
people are plagued by irrational biases and inconsistencies. The author elucidates how these developments have led to a post-utilitarianism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010714017
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Consumption, Risk and Prioritarianism
Adler, Matthew; Treich, Nicolas - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014
Most economic problems combining risk and equity have been studied under utilitarianism. As an alternative, we study … under utilitarianism. Thus, a concern for equity (in the ex ante prioritarian sense) means less concern for the risky future … prioritarianism than under utilitarianism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823115
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The Probability of Casting a Decisive Vote: From IC to IAC trhough Ehrhart's Polynomials and Strong Mixing
Le Breton, Michel; Lepelley, Dominique; Smaoui, Hatem - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the probability of casting a decisive vote for a class or random electorate models encompassing the celebrated IC and IAC models. The emphasis is on the impact of correlation across votes on the order of magnitude of this event. Our proof techniques...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812653
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Influence Vs. Utility in the Evaluation of Voting Rules: A New Look at the Penrose Formula
Le Breton, Michel; Van Der Straeten, Karine - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014
popular two social objective criteria used when evaluating voting mechanisms. For one particular probabilistic model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812654
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Power Distribution in French River Basin Committees
Zaporozhets, Vera - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2015
I study the distribution of voting power between different decision-makers in French river basin committees over the … relative power of different decision-makers in different voting situations. In the second part, I describe the methodology to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189156
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Private, social and self insurance for longterm care: a political economy analysis
De Donder, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2011
We study the political determination of the level of social long-term care insurance when voters also choose private insurance and saving amounts. Agents di§er in income, probability of becoming dependent and of receiving family help. Social insurance redistributes across income and risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240609