This paper analyses Rawls's celebrated difference principle, and its lexicographic extension, in societies with a finite and an infinite number of agents. A unified framework of analysis is set up, which allows one to characterise Rawlsian egalitarian principles by means of a weaker version of a...

Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...

Eigentum verpflichtet, so ist es schon im Grundgesetz festgehalten. Eigentum und Vermögen, Kapital und Besitz stellen eine Form des persönlichen wie gesellschaftlichen Reichtums dar. Doch wie wird dieser Reichtum erworben? Wie wird er verteilt? Die Grundwerte des wirtschaftlichen Handelns sind...

Why Should We Debate the Theory of Macrojustice?- THE MACROJUSTIC OF SERGE-CHRISTOPHE KOLM: General Presentation -- Economic Macrojustice: Fair Optimum Income Distribution, Taxation and Transfers -- PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF MACROJUSTICE: ELIE and the Emotions Related to Social Recognition --...

This book addresses the tendency to mischaracterise liberalism as a “neoliberal” reform project, arguing that liberal political philosophy is concerned only to sustain the conditions that make individual freedom possible. This is illustrated with reference to the design of pensions....