Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of inequality do not adequately reflect these normative...

Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of inequality do not adequately reflect these normative...

Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die wirtschafts- und unternehmensethischen Arbeiten von William Baumol und rekonstruiert seine ökonomische Erklärung für die spektakulären Wachstumserfolge westlicher Marktwirtschaften.