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This paper is based on the ideas of political philosopher John Rawls who suggested that a just society is one which would be created behind a "veil of ignorance", that is to say, without knowing where one would end up in the society's distribution of talent and other attributes valued in the...
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Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …
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of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … differences in the notion of justice between men and women; women tend to be far more egalitarian. Using our preference …
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This article compares the age-old semantics of justice with the relatively young semantics of sustainability. Based on …
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In this paper we challenge the common interpretation of Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness by showing that this … identified a priori, and partial justice orderings derived accordingly …
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of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … differences in the notion of justice between men and women; women tend to be far more egalitarian. Using our preference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327335
Relying on a recent survey of more than 3300 participants from China, Germany and the US, this paper empirically analyzes citizens' perceptions of climate change and climate policy, focusing on key guiding principles for sharing mitigation costs across countries. The ranking of the main...
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An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …
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and Sen’s capability-based account of justice. It argues that buen vivir social movements testify that questions of … justice cannot be separated from questions about the good life, and that the quality of relations people have with each other …
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In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived...
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