Using new data on linguistic diversity across and within countries, we examine novel channels though which language … general equilibrium implications of domestic language proximity, we simulate the repeal of Quebec’s Bill 101, which made … French an official language in Canada and established fundamental language rights for French-speakers. The analysis …

Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If …-benefit calculation has to be augmented in various ways if rights influence the status of a language, which in turn influences the … preferences for language rights. Also the inter-generational transfer of language repertoires to the next generation leads to an …

We analyze various normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. A general model … for the analysis of language rights over time in a model with overlapping generations is set up. This model is then first … the status of a language in the future, the naïve static analysis has to be augmented in favor of further …

We analyze normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. It is shown in a welfare …-maximizing model where rights today influence the status of a language in the future, that the 'naive' ex ante cost-benefit analysis …

We introduce distributive justice into a simple model of growth and distribution. Two groups (‘classes’) of otherwise … and Nash bargaining, encapsulating electoral politics and socio-political bargaining) and two normative (justice) criteria … of ‘justice as minimal social friction’. Under the plausible assumption that the capitalists’ overall socio …

distributive justice. Here we study people's normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and …

Social norms, though often implicit, are to a great extent communicated and made salient using natural language. They …

temporal side of the different processes interacting to produce a change in the structure of the language. That is, the rate of … import and dissipation of new elements is seen in relation to the rate at which a language absorbs such new elements into its … how the structural type of a language might influence its rate of adaptation of the external innovations and how the …