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This paper extends the analysis of liberal principles in social choice recently proposed by Mariotti and Veneziani (2009a) to infinitely-lived societies. First, a novel characterisation of the inegalitarian leximax social welfare relation is provided based on the Individual Benefit Principle,...
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This paper critically analyses the strongly subjectivist approach to exploitation theory recently proposed by Matsuo … exploitation index can be constructed. It is argued that a minimal objectivism is necessary in exploitation theory, whereby … related to the 'New Interpretation' ([1]; [3]). It is argued that it captures the core intuitions of exploitation theory and …
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Roemer's (1982, 1988) classical approach and all the crucial insights of exploitation theory are generalised, proving that …
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In the last three decades, two questions have been central for the Left. Is there a future for electoral socialism and social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour? Political and economic events seem to suggest negative...
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theory. …
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Anscombe and Aumann (1963) offer a definition of subjective probability in terms of comparisons with objective probabilities. That definition - which has provided the basis for much of the succeeding work on subjective probability - presumes that the subjective probability of an event is...
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This paper studies the implications of heterogeneous capital gain expectations on output and asset prices. We consider a disequilibrium macroeconomic model where agents' expectations on future capital gains affect aggregate demand. Agents' beliefs take two forms - fundamentalist and chartist -...
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This paper analyses the temporal unit of egalitarian concern. In the intertemporal context, the differences between egalitarian views can be appreciated not only in inequality analysis but also as regards the ideal egalitarian distribution to be established. In this paper, three...
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accumulate. Consistent with the basic intuitions of Marx's theory of technical change, we show that there is no obvious relation …
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