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Diseguaglianza, conflitto sociale e sindacati in America

Lettieri, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

A comparison of the 2007-08 crisis with that of 1929 showed its extreme gravity, but it also may have implied that the old harmful mistakes would not be repeated. After four years, the crisis has not been solved and it even threatens to worsen. Neo-conservative Republicans claim that this is...

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When inefficiency begets efficiency

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2003

inefficient household decisions on market performance is investigated. At one extreme, market efficiency can occur even when … market. At the other extreme, market efficiency is bound to fail, if household inefficiencies are solely caused by an … stability requires efficient or not too inefficient internal distribution. -- allocative efficiency ; general equilibrium …

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When inefficiency begets efficiency

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2003

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On strong independence of allocative efficiency from distribution in the theory of public goods

Kleinberg, Norman L.; Ma, Barry K.; Weiss, Jeffrey H. - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 343-345

We extend Bergstrom and Cornes (1983) to show that for strong independence of efficient allocations from distribution in a public goods economy, the utility functions of all consumers must identically be of the form: A(Y)Xi, where Y and Xi are respectively the quantities of public good and...

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On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks

Millner, Antony - 2013

catastrophes as infinitely bad, even though each individual's utility function is bounded. Finally, I suggest that the welfare … changes. Drawing on recent work in population ethics I propose an alternative welfare framework with normatively desirable … properties, which has the effect of dampening the contribution of catastrophes to welfare. …

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Income inequality and social preferences for redistribution and compensation differentials

Kerr, William R. - 2013

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...

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On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks

Millner, Antony - 2013

that the welfare functions traditionally used in climate economics are ill-equipped to deal with climate catastrophes in … which population size changes. Drawing on recent work in population ethics I propose an alternative welfare framework with … normatively desirable properties, which has the effect of dampening the contribution of catastrophes to welfare. …

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Fetişizarea analizei cost-beneficiu în decizia publică de alocare a resurselor

Mihaela, Iacob - In: Revista OEconomica (2011) 04

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA), as a distinctive tool for public investment projects evaluation laying in the portfolio of the governmental authorities, strives to replicate the market in establishing economic standards for the measurement of their success, while the government’s actions are in...

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Income inequality and social preferences for redistribution and compensation differentials

Kerr, William R. - Suomen Pankki - 2013

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Chapter 10 Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007

This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...

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