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hard intervention that removes the stakeholder's freedom to choose, while a large majority implement a soft intervention …
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Is welfare economics still possible, when preferences are endogenously determined? The answer is yes, if and only if the hypothesis of adaptive preferences is correct. If preferences satisfy the conditions of continuity, non-satiation and regularity, then adaptive preferences imply that...
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important for human well-being. In particular, Sen emphasizes the importance of the "freedom to choose". Freedom, however, is … not always an exact (crisp) outcome, and membership in the freedom space can take place gradually. This paper proposes a … framework that uses fuzzy-set theory to measure human well-being in consistence with Sen’s Capability Approach. The results …
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Globalization radically changes income distribution and triggers intense international tax competition. Therefore, globalization entails an extensive restructuring of the welfare state. We analyze a parsimonious model of an open economy, in its trade and finance transactions with the rest of the...
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This book develops John Rawls’s theory of justice by adding reality-based analyses. This is accomplished by answering …
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