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Egalitarian-Equivalence and the Pareto Principle for Social Preferences

Tadenuma, Koichi - Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of … - 2002

the efficiency-first or the equity-first principle. The degrees of rationality vary widely depending on which principle is …When we construct social preferences, the Pareto principle is often in conflict with the equity criteria: there exist … two allocations x and y such that x Pareto dominates y, but y is an equitable allocation whereas x is not. The efficiency …

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Economy and power to tax

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper aims to describe the evolution part of the economy and power to tax in Colombia. It also explains the failure of the government and the problems that have expanded public sector expenditures. Furthermore, we identify the aspects of political economy have influenced the evolution of the...

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Balancing supply and demand under bilateral constraints

Bochet, Olivier; Ilkilic, Rahmi; Moulin, Hervé; … - In: Theoretical Economics 7 (2012) 3

to either one of its two agents. Together with efficiency, and a version of equal treatment of equals, these properties …

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Paired Comparisons Analysis : An Axiomatic Approach to Rankings in Tournaments

Hendrickx, Ruud; Lohmann, Edwin; Gonzalez Diaz, Julio - 2011

In this paper we present an axiomatic analysis of several ranking methods for tournaments. We find that two of them exhibit a very good behaviour with respect to the set of properties under consideration. One of them is the maximum likelihood ranking, the most common method in statistics and...

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A Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism for Fair Division

Fujinaka, Yuji - 2009

order additivity condition. This result contrasts well with various results on the incompatibility between efficiency and ex …

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Conflict and Cooperation within an Organization : A Case Study of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

Zetland, David - 2012

auctions for equity and efficiency … explore two possibilities for efficiency despite heterogeneity. First, MET had so much water that it could treat it as a club …

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Secure Implementation in Economies with Indivisible Objects and Money

Fujinaka, Yuji; Wakayama, Takuma - 2007

This paper studies the application of the notion of secure implementation (Cason, Saijo, Sjostrom, and Yamato, 2006; Saijo, Sjostrom, and Yamato, 2007) to the problem of allocating indivisible objects with monetary transfers. We propose a new domain-richness condition, termed as minimal richness. We...

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Dissertation Chapter 4 : The Dependence Thesis Defended against Objections

Donahue, T. J. - 2008

This Chapter aims to defend the Dependence Thesis - proved in Chapter Three - against important objections. Part 2 defends the Thesis against an argument from anti-theory in ethics. The anti-theory position maintains that abstract, general ethical theories do more harm than good. Part 2 rebuts...

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Dissertation Chapter 2 : What is a Normative Political Theory?

Donahue, T. J. - 2007

This Chapter elucidates and defends the second premise of the Argument from Claims about Interest-Affecting Normative Requirement. The premise runs: A theory is a normative political theory just in case it claims that a certain set of normative requirements ranges over (a) some actions, or (b)...

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Evaluating Climate Policies by the Pareto Principle : Efficiency When Future Identities are Unobservable

Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022

Climate change is an externality since those who emit greenhouse gases do not pay the long-term negative consequences of their emissions. In view of the resulting inefficiency, it has been claimed that climate policies can be evaluated by the Pareto principle. However, climate policies lead to...

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