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A Behavioral Theory of Economic Welfare and Economic Justice : A Smithian Alternative to Pareto Optimality

Altman, Morris - 2010

Details a behavioral theory of economic welfare that overlaps and extends the global theoretical framework contained in Pareto Optimality, with significant public policy implications. The essence of this framework is contained in Adam Smith’s the Wealth of Nations where it is argued that the...

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Chapter Twenty-Four. Freedom, Opportunity, and Well-Being

Foster, James E. - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 687-728). 2011

This paper reexamines key results from the measurement of opportunity freedom , or the extent to which a set of options offers a decision maker real opportunities to achieve. Three cases are investigated: no preferences, a single preference, and plural preferences. The three corresponding...

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A causal measure of freedom

Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2011

The paper axiomatizes a freedom measure based on the idea that an agent is free if she can causally influence relevant aspects of her life. To model this, causal networks are employed. It is shown that the measure is a generalization of several opportunity set based measures. The measure solves...

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Economic approaches to understanding change in happiness

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2014

Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people are not indifferent to adverse living conditions when...

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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition

Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016

This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...

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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition

Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2015

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Strategic Voting and Happiness

Acacia, Francesca - 2013

In this paper we extend the research on happiness and spatial theory of voting by exploring whether strategic and sincere voting affect subjective well-being. We conduct the analysis with data on a large sample of individuals over 50 elections in 16 OECD countries. The results of the analysis...

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Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance

Lamberton, Cait Poynor - 2014

Two experiments show that eliciting taxpayer preferences on government spending -- providing taxpayer agency … stated take-up rate of a questionable tax loophole. Providing taxpayer agency recouples tax payments with the public services … compliance with tax dues. With tax noncompliance costing the US government $385 billion annually, providing taxpayer agency could …

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Information technologies and subjective well-being : does the internet raise material aspirations?

Lohmann, Steffen - 2013

This paper examines whether access to modern information technologies, in particular the internet, has an impact on invididual positionality - meaning the degree to which subjective well-being is affected by income relative to others rather than absolute income. We provide empirical evidence...

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Identity-Driven Cooperation Versus Competition

Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

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