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literature on this problem of compensation. This literature follows the distinction between the ethical principle of compensation … influence over agents’ outcomes of the characteristics that elicit compensation. According to the latter, a good resource … elicit compensation. The principle of responsibility can be interpreted as a libertarian principle of natural reward, or as a …
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In this paper I consider the problem of measuring opportunity inequality when monetary transfers are possible. First, I consider the case in which agents have homogeneous preferences, as in the previous literature, and I then propose an extension to the heterogeneous case. In both, I identify an...
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In a recent paper to appear in Journal of Economic Theory [Kotaro Suzumura and Yongsheng Xe, "Characterizations of Consequentialism and Non-consequentialism"], an analytical framework was developed, which allowed us to characterize the concept of consequentialism and non-consequentialism. To...
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In a model where agents have unequal skills and heterogeneous preferences about consumption goods and leisure, this paper studies how to combine linear commodity taxes and non-linear income tax. It proposes a particular social welfare function on the basis of fairness principles. It then derives...
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An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has … ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue that, despite the above difficulties, compensation can be carried …
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An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has … ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue that, despite the above difficulties, a compensation can be carried …
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In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing...
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In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401677
acknowledged that an early death is a serious disadvantage, and that attention should be paid to the compensation of short …-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the compatibility of those two concerns: prevention against early death and compensation for … a concern for compensation. The reason is that if it is socially desirable to raise the number of survivors through …
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explore the relationship between the ex post/ex ante tension and the well documented clash between the "compensation principle …" and various "reward principles": we show that the tension between reward and compensation only exists if one endorses an …
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