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The limits to moral erosion in markets : social norms and the replacement excuse
Bartling, Björn; Özdemir, Yagiz - 2017
This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the possibility that a competitor will step in and conclude the deal if a conscientious market actor forgoes a profitable business opportunity for ethical reasons. We study experimentally whether people...
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Infinite population utilitarian criteria
Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022
how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …, separability, and population ethics. We relate it to other strongly anonymous utilitarian criteria and demonstrate its …
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Institutions, shared guilt, and moral transgression
Rothenhäusler, Dominik; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora - 2015
Many tasks can only be completed if several people contribute. Likewise, many institutions, e.g. voting rules, require the support of several people to implement specific decisions. In such situations, individual costs from supporting may decrease in the number of supporters. This holds true for...
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The optimal design of assisted reproductive technologies policies
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - 2022
with the postulated social welfare criterion. Utilitarianism redistributes only between individuals with unequal fecundity … information and in order to solve for the incentive problem, utilitarianism recommends also to either tax or subsidize ART …
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A fairness justification of utilitarianism
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2016
critiques to utilitarianism by satisfying the following three fairness axioms: possibility of trade-offs sets a limit to the …
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Optimal utilitarian taxation and horizontal equity
Jordahl, Henrik; Micheletto, Luca - 2003
We impose a horizontal equity restriction on the problem of finding the optimal utilitarian tax mix. The horizontal equity constraint requires that individuals with the same ability have to pay the same amount of taxes regardless of their preferences for leisure. Contrary to normal findings, we...
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Age-related taxation of bequests in the presence of a dependency risk
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020
This paper studies the design of the optimal linear taxation of bequests when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependence. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests resulted from...
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The malleability of undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergenerational justice
Asheim, Geir B.; Buchholz, Wolfgang - 2000
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 …
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Age and health related inheritance taxation
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre - 2021
This paper studies the design of an optimal non linear inheritance taxation when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests result from...
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Probability adjusted rank-discounted utilitarianism
Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - 2014
We propose and axiomatize probability adjusted rank-discounted critical-level generalized utilitarianism (PARDCLU). We … thus generalize rank-discounted utilitarianism (RDU) (proposed by Zuber and Asheim, 2012) to variable population and risky … other policy issues with long-run consequences. We illustrate how PARDCLU yields rank-dependent expected utilitarianism …
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