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Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...
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This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design : The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self-concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral switches between self-concern and umpire mode and investigate the goodness of ten standards of...
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This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice, defined as distribution according to desert. We derive a formula that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from fiscal data and the estimated...
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Verteilungsgerechtigkeit problematisch. Es wird für eine stärker integrierte Koordinationsstruktur plädiert, die wirtschaftliche, soziale …
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Which inequalities among individuals are considered unjust? This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to study distributive choices dealing with arbitrarily unequal initial endowments. In a three-person distribution problem where subjects either know or do not know their...
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This paper presents a simple conceptual framework intended for describing individuals' subjective evaluations of occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, the framework explicitly allows for the distinction between individuals' perceptions and their...
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According to the accountability principle a person's fair allocation takes into account the input-relevant variables she can influence, like effort, but not the variables she cannot influence, like a randomly assigned exogenous factor. This study is based on a real effort-task experiment, where...
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referring to the notion of responsibility which is a central concept of political philosophy and theory. It will be shown that …
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In this paper, we discuss the relationship between responsibility and joint production. Responsibility mirrors our … ability to act freely. We can act freely only if we can assume responsibility for our actions and their consequences; the … limits of our responsibility are therefore also the limits of our liberty (part I). Thus, a problem of responsibility arises …
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Probleme die Verantwortung trägt. In ihrer Komplexität machen es diese Umweltprobleme vielmehr fraglich, ob wir für unsere … Eingriffe in die Natur Verantwortung überhaupt übernehmen können. Und was heißt überhaupt: Verantwortung tragen oder … Verantwortung übernehmen? Diese Fragen lassen sich mithilfe des Konzepts der Kuppelproduktion untersuchen. In diesem Aufsatz …
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