In Fairness versus Welfare, we advance the thesis that social policies should be assessed based entirely on their … effects on individuals' well-being. This thesis implies that no independent weight should be accorded to notions of fairness … (other than many purely distributive notions). We support our thesis in three ways: by demonstrating how notions of fairness …

In Fairness versus Welfare, we advance the thesis that social policies should be assessed based entirely on their … effects on individuals' well-being. This thesis implies that no independent weight should be accorded to notions of fairness … (other than many purely distributive notions). We support our thesis in three ways: by demonstrating how notions of fairness …

In this article we incorporate notions of the fairness of sanctions into the standard model of public enforcement. We … sanction to the sanction that is ideal in terms of fairness alone and to the sanction that is ideal in terms of deterrence … risk neutral. When the issue of fairness is added to the analysis, however, the usual solution generally is not optimal …