fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … aversion. Furthermore, we show that an exclusive focus on top incomes may misguide fairness judgments. …

question how this finding bears on the evaluation of the democratic process with respect to its fairness. In this paper we draw …

, a large part of this increase is compensated by the welfare state. …

preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To … approach to characterize the redistributive preferences embodied in the welfare systems of 17 EU countries and the US. Implicit … social welfare functions are broadly compatible with the fiction of an optimizing Paretian social planner. Some exceptions …

, whereas the conventional 100 % tax view holds under the standard utilitarian social welfare criterion, it does not hold under … the ex post egalitarian criterion, which assigns a strong weight to the welfare of unlucky short-lived individuals. From …

question how this finding bears on the evaluation of the democratic process with respect to its fairness. In this paper we draw …