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comparable. This allows us to conclude that the impartiality requirement cannot be used to decide between Rawls' and Harsanyi …
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Most prominent models of economic justice (and especially those proposed by Harsanyi and Rawls) are based on the … assumption that impartiality is required for making moral decisions. However, although Harsanyi and Rawls agree on that, and … furthermore agree on the fact that impartiality can be obtained under appropriate conditions of ignorance, they strongly disagree …
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Following a long-standing philosophical tradition, impartiality is a distinctive and determining feature of moral … judgments, especially in matters of distributive justice. This broad ethical tradition was revived in welfare economics by …
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This article defines in a precise manner three different mechanisms to achieve impartiality in distributive justice and …
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Resource egalitarianism and welfare egalitarianism are two focal conceptions of distributive justice. We show in this …
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The ethic of 'priority' is a compromise between the extremely compensatory ethic of 'welfare equality' and the needs-blind ethic of 'income equality'. We propose an axiom of priority, and characterize resource-allocation rules that are impartial, prioritarian, and solidaristic. They comprise a...
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The veil of ignorance has been used often as a tool for recommending what justice requires with respect to the …
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The ethic of 'priority' is a compromise between the extremely compensatory ethic of 'welfare equality' and the needs-blind ethic of ‘income equality’. We propose an axiom of priority, and characterize resource allocation rules that are impartial, prioritarian, and solidaristic. They comprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990829
The veil of ignorance has been used often as a tool of recommending what justice requires with respect to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005043027
In this paper we investigate if people cheat more when they observe their peers cheating because they conform or because they become aware that cheating is something to actively consider. In our experiment subjects toss a coin in private and report the outcome (white or black). We reward only...
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