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normative categories such as justice, solidarity, responsibility, sustainability, and corporate citizenship. Based on this …
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This paper aims to show that, contrary to the standard understanding of his work, Sen’s idea of justice does not … consist in the defense of a capability theory. Under the dominant capability-centered view, Sen’s idea of justice is indeed … a commitment to a capability theory. The capability-centered view is shown to be inconsistent with Sen’s idea of justice …
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This paper carries out a brief analysis of Amartya Sen’s thinking on Justice, based on Part IV of his book The Idea of … Justice. Besides of describing Sen’s thoughts on the subject, the paper aims to contextualize it in the evolution of Sen …’s work and in the general discussion on Justice in economic theory, reconsidering his identity as a non utilitarian …
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. In the dictator games we classify individuals’ preferences as self-interested, inequity averse, efficiency maximizing, or … participants’ behavior in the ultimatum and trust games. The self-interested and efficiency maximizers make the lowest offers in … trust game. Consistent with the goal of maximizing the sum of payoffs however, efficiency maximizers and compassionate …
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tradeoff between profit maximization (market norm) and workers' welfare (social norm). We use priming to manipulate the cues …
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Well-Being and Fair Distribution provides a rigorous and comprehensive defense of the “social welfare function” as a … tool for evaluating governmental policies. In particular, it argues for a “prioritarian” social welfare function: one that … “prioritarian” social welfare function is more appealing than alternative forms (for example, a utilitarian, leximin, or …
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In their book Climate Change Justice, Eric Posner and David Weisbach advocate adoption of an economically optimal …
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assume agents have preferences for equity and efficiency as well as their own material payoffs. Empirical failure of the … that have higher efficiency and greater equity …
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Past attempts to uncover evidence that economically disadvantaged groups are unjustly exposed to environmental disamenities have failed to take into account self-selection behavior of individuals or groups of individuals. For instance, when choosing a place to live, households may be trading...
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We show that people manipulate their attitudes towards ambiguity when doing so allows them to behave more self-interestedly. In a "dictator" decision subject chose between a "fair" and an "unfair" choice. By choosing the latter, dictators increase their own allocation by decreasing the...
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