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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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present note, we propose an extension that solves these shortcomings by introducing the idea of impartiality. …
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The Office of the Ombudsperson was established in 2012 to provide staff of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with confidential, impartial, informal, and independent assistance to resolve workplace conflicts and issues. Its first annual report describes the operations of the office in fulfilling...
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Resource egalitarianism and welfare egalitarianism are two focal conceptions of distributive justice. We show in this …
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We study optimal wage schemes for teams, under the presence of budget constraints, in a model in which agents’ effort decisions are mapped into the probability of the team’s success. We show that (first-best) efficiency can only be attained with complex contracts that are vulnerable to ex...
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This article explains the emergence of an unique equilibrium resolution as the result of a compromise between two selves with different preferences. The stronger this difference is, the more generous the resolution gets. This result is in contrast to predictions of other models in which sinful...
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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...
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examines a series of twenty-one unification surprises in the study of justice and beyond, sixteen in the study of justice and … five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces - justice, status, and power - and the subsequent …
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