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This book presents a rigorous treatment of the mathematical instruments available for dealing with income distributions, in particular Lorenz curves and related methods. The methods examined allow us to analyze, compare and modify such distributions from an economic and social perspective....
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Zu große Einkommensungleichheit gefährdet die Prosperität und Kohärenz einer Gesellschaft im gleichen Maß wie ein zu hoher Ausgleich der Einkommen; mittlere Ausgleichniveaus hingegen weisen die höchste Konsensfähigkeit auf. Diese Erkenntnisse resultieren aus der analytischen Nutzung von...
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Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability. All these problems are compounded by the phenomenon of demographic transition and aging. This graduate textbook addresses these issues with the...
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, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these …
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In this ambitious book, the authors challenge mainstream economic theory by reconsidering the principle of …In this book the authors challenge mainstream economic theory by removing the principle of individualism from its …
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Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms...
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-Best Culture, and the Theory of Regulation -- Public Utility Pricing and Capacity Choice with Stochastic Demand -- Bidimensional … Advantage -- On Kolm's Use of Epistemic Counterfactuals in Social Choice Theory -- Optimal Redistribution in the Distributive … with different population sizes? How can domain conditions in social choice theory be justified using Kolm's epistemic …
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