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Is Commodity Taxation Unfair?
Fleurbaey, Marc - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2005
In a model where agents have unequal skills and heterogeneous preferences about consumption goods and leisure, this paper studies how to combine linear commodity taxes and non-linear income tax. It proposes a particular social welfare function on the basis of fairness principles. It then derives...
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Compensating the Dead? Yes we can!
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2010
An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has … ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue that, despite the above difficulties, compensation can be carried …
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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons
Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015
In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379816
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Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons
Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vito; Ramos, Xavi - 2015
In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401677
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Prevention against equality?
Fleurbaey, Marc; Ponthiere, Gregory - In: Journal of Public Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 68-84
acknowledged that an early death is a serious disadvantage, and that attention should be paid to the compensation of short …-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the compatibility of those two concerns: prevention against early death and compensation for … a concern for compensation. The reason is that if it is socially desirable to raise the number of survivors through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679136
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Ex ante versus ex post equality of opportunity
Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vito - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
explore the relationship between the ex post/ex ante tension and the well documented clash between the "compensation principle …" and various "reward principles": we show that the tension between reward and compensation only exists if one endorses an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479575
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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons
Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015
In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376911
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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons
Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015
In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347163
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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers
Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006
This chapter examines the role of altruistic motives in the economic analysis of public social transfers, both from a positive and from a normative point of view. The positive question is to know whether we can fully neglect altruistic considerations to explain the development or sustainability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023654
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Universal Social Ordering
Fleurbaey, Marc; Tadenuma, Koichi - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2009
We propose the concept of a universal social ordering, defined on the set of pairs of an allocation and a preference profile of any finite population. It is meant to unify evaluations and comparisons of social states with populations of possibly different sizes with various characteristics. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008609700