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Freedom, Time Constraints and Progressive Taxation

Screpanti, Ernesto - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2004

In this paper I present a measure of freedom for opportunity sets which are bounded by both budget and time constraints … leaving freedom distribution unaltered should apply progressive taxation. Since incomes bind freedom only partially when time … constraints bind, taxing the rich reduces his freedom proportionally less than taxing the poor reduces his. Moreover, when incomes …

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Trade-offs between justices, economics, and efficiency

Baumgaertner, Stefan; Glotzbach, Stefanie; Hoberg, Nikolai - 2011

We argue that economics – as the scientific method of analyzing trade-offs – can be helpful (and may even be indispensable) for assessing the trade-off between intergenerational and intragenerational justice. Economic analysis can delineate the “opportunity set” of politics with respect...

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Resource Egalitarianism with a Dash of Efficiency

SPRUMONT, Yves - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2007

We study the problem of defining inequality-averse social orderings over the space of allocations in a multi-commodity environment where individuals differ only in their preferences. We formulate notions of egalitarianism based on the axiom that any dominance between the consumption bundles of...

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Do Irrelevant Commodities Matter?

Fleurbaey, Marc; Tadenuma, Koichi - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2005

We study the possibility of making social evaluations independently of individual preferences over non-consumed commodities. This is related to the well-known problem of performing international comparisons of standard of living across countries with different consumption goods. We prove...

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Intergenerational Ethics under Resource Constraints

Asheim, Geir B. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 141 (2005) III, pp. 313-330

When evaluating long-term policies, economists usually suggest to maximize the sum of discounted utilities. On the one hand, discounted utilitarianism was given a solid axiomatic foundation by Koopmans (Econometrica 1960). On the other hand, this criterion has questionable implications when...

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Distributive and Additive Costsharing of an Homogeneous Good

Moulin, HervÈ; Shenker, Scott - Duke University, Department of Economics - 1997

We consider the sharing of the cost of producing a homogeneous good when the technology has variable returns and individuals have arbitrary demands. We give a full analytical description of the family of costsharing methods that allocate costs in propor tion to demands when returns are constant,...

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A simple characterization of majority rule

Kelly, Jerry S.; Campbell, Donald E. - In: Economic Theory 15 (2000) 3, pp. 689-700

Assuming an odd number of voters, E. S. Maskin recently provided a characterization of majority rule based on full transitivity. This paper characterizes majority rule with a set of axioms that includes two of Maskin's, dispenses with another, and contains weak versions of his other two axioms....

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Resource-monotonic allocation when preferences are single-peaked

Ehlers, Lars - In: Economic Theory 20 (2002) 1, pp. 113-131

We consider the problem of allocating an infinitely divisible commodity among a group of agents with single-peaked preferences. Thomson (1994a), Sönmez (1994), and Moulin (1999) introduce three different resource-monotonicity conditions. In each characterization they derive, the axioms are...

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Du paradoxe libéral-parétien à un concept de métaclassement des préférences.

IGERSHEIM, Herrade - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2004

Notre contribution défend la thèse selon laquelle le paradoxe libéralparétien, formulé en 1970 par Sen, plaide en faveur de l’élaboration d’un nouveau formalisme en termes de métaclassement des préférences. Il s’agit d’enrichir la structure de préférences traditionnelle par la...

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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2008

This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...

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