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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
considerations to explain the development or sustainability of these transfers. Such is the implicit ambition of efficiency theories … of the Welfare State. However, while these theories may be suited for explaining the development of public insurance or … explained by pure efficiency motives, but less than what would be predicted under the extended insurance hypothesis. One …
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Premature Deaths, Accidental Bequests and Fairness
Fleurbaey, Marc - 2018
, whereas the conventional 100% tax view holds under the standard utilitarian social welfare criterion, it does not hold under … the ex post egalitarian criterion, which assigns a strong weight to the welfare of unlucky short-lived individuals. From …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927516
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Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017
, whereas the conventional 100 % tax view holds under the standard utilitarian social welfare criterion, it does not hold under … the ex post egalitarian criterion, which assigns a strong weight to the welfare of unlucky short-lived individuals. From …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778698
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Social Externalities and Economic Analysis
Fleurbaey, Marc; Kanbur, Ravi; Viney, Brody - 2021
This paper considers and assesses the concept of social externalities through humaninterdependence, in relation to the economic analysis of externalities in the tradition of Pigou andArrow, including the analysis of the commons. It argues that there are limits to economic analysis. Our proposal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211226
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Going Beyond GDP – But How Far?
Fleurbaey, Marc; Fouquin, Michel; Gaulier, Guillaume - In: La Lettre du CEPII (2011) 312
Although economists have long stressed the limitations of using GDP to evaluate standards of living, the debate was recently reignited by the publication of the Stiglitz report. In 2006, the CEPII proposed an indicator incorporating certain social data items, in terms of equivalent incomes, such...
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The social cost of carbon and inequality: when local redistribution shapes global carbon prices
Kornek, Ulrike; Klenert, David; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - 2019
The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018319
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The Social Cost of Carbon and Inequality : When Local Redistribution Shapes Global Carbon Prices
Kornek, Ulrike - 2019
The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870643
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The social cost of carbon and inequality : when local redistribution shapes global carbon prices
Kornek, Ulrike; Klenert, David; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - 2019
The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002880
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Ethique et évaluation économique des interventions de santé en vue d'une définition du périmètre de soins remboursables
Thébaut, Clémence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Welfare economics encompasses other public choice theories besides utilitarianism, like egalitarian social justice … and Wales), IQWiG (Germany) and KCE (Belgium) - and to assess what social justice principles are implied by their … justice theories. The objective of the third chapter is to provide evidence about the feasibility of assessment based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074675
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Well-being during the Great Recession : new evidence from a measure of multi-dimensional living standards with heterogeneous preferences
Boarini, Romina; Fleurbaey, Marc; Murtin, Fabrice; … - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 124 (2022) 1, pp. 104-138
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