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Endangering the natural basis of life is unjust : on the status and future of the sustainability discourse
Becker, Christian; Ewringmann, Dieter; Faber, Malte; … - 2012
development, welfare, and justice. … backdrop of considerations about the meaning of justice in the context of sustainability. We argue that the preservation of the … natural basis of life is by itself a requirement of justice. However, the crucial role of the ecological dimension of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569671
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Economics still needs philosophy
Nussbaum, Martha Craven - In: Review of social economy : publication of the … 74 (2016) 3, pp. 229-247
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581028
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What makes a good job? : job quality and job satisfaction : job satisfaction is important to well-being, but intervention may be needed only if markets are impeded from improving j...
Clark, Andrew E. - 2015
Many measures of job satisfaction have been trending downward. Because jobs are a key part of most people's lives, knowing what makes a good job (job quality) is vital to knowing how well society is doing. Integral to worker well-being, job quality also affects the labor market through related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433841
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Endangering the natural basis of life is unjust. On the status and future of the sustainability discourse
Becker, Christian; Ewringmann, Dieter; Faber, Malte; … - 2012
development, welfare, and justice. … backdrop of considerations about the meaning of justice in the context of sustainability. We argue that the preservation of the … natural basis of life is by itself a requirement of justice. However, the crucial role of the ecological dimension of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422233
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Leveraging wage subsidies to facilitate fair wages and increase social welfare
Blumḳin, Tomer; Pinhas, Haim; Zultan, Ro'i - 2017 - This version: May 31, 2017
higher social welfare. A substantial empirical literature establishes that workers reciprocate gifts in the form of higher … hypotheses and confirms the behavioral and welfare implications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701529
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Why can't I keep my surname? : the fairness and welfare of the Japanese legal system
Omura, Makiko - In: Feminist economics 25 (2019) 3, pp. 171-200
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Fairness and the unselfish demand for redistribution by taxpayers and welfare recipients
Sabatini, Fabio; Ventura, Marco; Yamamura, Eiji; … - 2017
We illustrate how the desire to live in a fair society that rewards individual effort and hard work triggers an unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject extreme progressivity. We then provide evidence of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785084
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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers
Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006
of the Welfare State. However, while these theories may be suited for explaining the development of public insurance or … theories, such as inequality-averse social welfare functions or fairness criteria. It is shown how both approaches can be … incorporation of individuals' altruistic feelings in social welfare functions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023654
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Fairness und ihr Preis
Schneider, Andrea; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2010
Based on the premise that fairness is different from equity and that it is primarily used in informal contexts we present an economic approach to fairness. Discussing the results of behavioral economics reveals the experience that people do not accept a monetary offer even if that collides with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271587
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Jefficiency vs. efficiency in social network models
Moebert, Jochen - 2006
The mainly used welfare criterion in the social network literature is Bentham´s utilitarian concept. The shortcomings … of this concept are well-known. We compare the outcomes of the utilitarian concept with the Nash social welfare function … of welfare considerations of important network formation models are evaluated by using the multiplicative concept. We …
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