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Ética y Justicia. Reflexiones a partir de The Idea of Justice de Amartya Sen
Mejía Cubillos, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper carries out a brief analysis of Amartya Sen’s thinking on Justice, based on Part IV of his book The Idea of … Justice. Besides of describing Sen’s thoughts on the subject, the paper aims to contextualize it in the evolution of Sen …’s work and in the general discussion on Justice in economic theory, reconsidering his identity as a non utilitarian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260573
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Utility and Justice: French Liberal Economists in the 19th Century.
Sigot, Nathalie - HAL - 2010
: they consider that utilitarianism deals with 'utility' but disregards justice. Such an interpretation appears when they … according to which these French liberal economists in the nineteenth century economists understand Bentham's utilitarianism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367989
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Do health care professionals find the use of age-based rationing to reduce health care costs ethical?
Hosseini, Hengameh - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 27 (2011) November, pp. 282-299
utilizing the utilitarian notions of ethics and justice. However, other writers, utilizing more egalitarian notions of justice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814660
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The ignorant observer
Gajdos, Thibault; Kandil, Feriel - HAL - 2008
We propose an extension of Harsanyi's Impartial Observer Theorem based on the representation of ignorance as the set of all possible probability distributions over individuals. We obtain a characterization of the observer's preferences that, under our most restrictive conditions, is a convex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750385
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Utility and justice: French liberal economists in the nineteenth century
Sigot, Nathalie - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 17 (2010) 4, pp. 759-792
according to which these economists understand Bentham's utilitarianism: they consider that utilitarianism deals with 'utility …' but disregards justice. Such an interpretation appears when they tried to oppose the 'French school' and 'English school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675127
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John Stuart Mill's Theory Of Justice
Clark, Barry; Elliott, John - In: Review of Social Economy 59 (2001) 4, pp. 467-490
theory of justice and its role in shaping his policy positions on issues such as welfare, education, voting rights, property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009200320
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La intervención transnacionalizada en América Latina
Porras, Tirso Porras - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2003)
En este artículo se pretenden bosquejar algunas ideas relacionadas con la contradicciónentre los postulados del liberalismo, respeto a la propiedad, a la libertad de los individuos,a la libre movilidad de los factores, a la flexibilidad de precios y salarios, a los postuladosdel individualismo...
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Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics - 2013
impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at stake is big enough. Responses to luck are more persistent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859552
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Change versus choice: eliciting attitudes to fair compensations
Bone, John; Crosetto, Paolo; Hey, John D.; Pasca, Carmen - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
attractiveness in particular of Luck Egalitarianism, compensating inequalities due to chance but not those due to choice. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884455
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False discoveries in mutual fund performance: Measuring luck in estimated alphas
Barras, Laurent; Scaillet, Olivier; Wermers, Russ - Institut für Finanzmarktforschung, Wirtschafts- und … - 2009
alphas by luck alone. Our approach precisely separates funds into (1) unskilled, (2) zero-alpha, and (3) skilled funds, even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957175