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Liberty and the post-utilitarian society
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012
people are plagued by irrational biases and inconsistencies. The author elucidates how these developments have led to a post-utilitarianism … on the scope of government intervention. -- behavioural economics ; utilitarianism ; government ; paternalism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629607
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Foundations of utilitarianism under risk and variable population
Spears, Dean; Zuber, Stéphane - 2021
Utilitarianism is the most prominent family of social welfare functions. We present three new axiomatic ….'s (1998) Expected Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism (ECLGU) is equivalent to a new axiom holding that it is better to … novel characterizations extend classic axiomatizations of utilitarianism from settings with either social risk or variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583668
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Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic: comparing alternative value frameworks
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Bloom, David E. - 2021
of benefit-cost analysis, utilitarianism, and prioritarianism in evaluating COVID-19-related policies. The relative … less aggressive control policies. Utilitarianism and prioritarianism, in that order, increasingly favor income … likely than utilitarianism or benefit-cost analysis to target young and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486386
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A soul's view of the optimal population problem
De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021
A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with different population levels. Such a criterion is essential to resolve the optimal population problem, i.e., the tradeoff between population size and the welfare of each person...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493350
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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes
Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015
A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336980
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Are two tax rates better than one?
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2009
Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845516
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Are sunk costs irrelevant? : evidence from playing time in the National Basketball Association
Leeds, Daniel; Leeds, Michael A.; Motomura, Akira - 2013
The relevance of sunk costs in decision making is one of the major sources of disagreement between neoclassical economists and behavioral economists. We test the importance of sunk costs by examining the role of a player's draft position on his playing time in the National Basketball...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226087
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Conspicuous consumption in the United States and China
Jinkins, David - 2014
I develop a model of conspicuous consumption to empirically measure the importance of peer beliefs to Americans and Chinese. In the model, a consumer cares not only about the direct utility she receives from consumption, but also about the way her consumption pattern affects her peer group's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381891
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Criminal victims, victimized criminals, or both? : a deeper look at the victim-offender overlap
Entorf, Horst - 2013
Offenders are more likely than non-offenders to be victims, and victims are more likely than non-victims to be offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the stylized empirical fact is even widely ignored. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201262
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Playing "hard to get" : an economic rationale for crowding out of intrinsically motivated behavior
Schnedler, Wendelin; Vanberg, Christoph - 2014
Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a simple rationale for this "crowding out" phenomenon, using standard economic arguments. The...
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