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Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...
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justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its …Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …
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examines a series of twenty-one unification surprises in the study of justice and beyond, sixteen in the study of justice and … five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces -- justice, status, and power -- and the subsequent …
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thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice and wellbeing. The most likely ethical basis for HE appears to …
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We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By randomly matched two strangers in a lab setting, we test whether the sources of opportunity handed down from the 'testator' subjects determines later redistributive decisions among...
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Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
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Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
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paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies - justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members' gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives - to achieve equal gains for members …
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What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...
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-control problems, moral values may increase individual material welfare (and utility) by serving as a self-commitment device. The model … sanctions and moral self-punishment and the spread and strength of individually optimal moral values. The empirical analysis … supports the theoretical predictions of the model. -- prohibitions ; temptation ; self-control ; moral values ; crime …
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