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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...
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aspects, there is a growing literature on equity and justice. Climate change policy has important dimensions of distributive … justice, both within and across generations, but in this paper we survey only studies on the intragenerational aspect, i …. -- Economics of Climate Change ; Intragenerational Equity ; Distributive Justice …
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We propose a theory studying temptation in presence of both externally and internally sanctioned prohibitions. Moral … optimally adhere to moral values of honesty. Incentives to be moral are non- monotonic in the crime premium. Larger external …-Control ; Moral Values ; Crime …
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In this paper, we empirically investigate a channel through which social capital may improve economic wellbeing and the functioning of institutions: political accountability. The main idea is that voters who share norms of generalized morality demand higher standards of behavior on their elected...
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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
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