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Roemer, John E.; Trannoy, Alain - 2013

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Chance versus choice : eliciting attitudes to fair compensations

Bone, John; Crosetto, Paolo; Hey, John Denis; Pasca, Carmen - 2013

This paper reports an experiment designed to elicit social preferences over income compensation schemes, where income differences between subjects have two independent components: one due to chosen effort and the other due to random chance. These differences can be compensated through social...

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Shallow meritocracy: an experiment on fairness views

Andre, Peter - 2021

Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...

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Equality of opportunity for well-being

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well- being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

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Equality of opportunity for well-being

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

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Chapter Twenty-Two. Compensation and Responsibilityprotect

Marc, Fleurbaey; François, Maniquet - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 507-604). 2011

and that of responsibility. According to the former, a good resource allocation system should neutralize the differential … elicit compensation. The principle of responsibility can be interpreted as a libertarian principle of natural reward, or as a … principle of utilitarian reward. Depending on whether the emphasis is put on the principle of compensation or of responsibility …

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Chapter 4. Equality of Opportunity

Roemer, John E.; Trannoy, Alain - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 217-300). 2015

The modern formulation of equality of opportunity emerges from discussions in political philosophy from the second half of the twentieth century beginning with Rawls (1971) and Dworkin (1981a,b) . Equality of opportunity exists when policies compensate individuals with disadvantageous...

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The Problem of Property : Taking the Freedom of Nonowners Seriously

Widerquist, Karl - 2023

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Problem Of Property -- Chapter 3: Lockean Property Theory: A Menu Of Options For The Justification Of Unilateral Appropriation -- Chapter 4: Lockean Appropriation Assessed -- Chapter 5: Right-Libertarian Appropriation Assessed -- Chapter 6: The...

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Citizens' perceptions of justice in international climate policy : an empirical analysis

Schleich, Joachim; Dütschke, Elisabeth; Schwirplies, … - 2014

Relying on a recent survey of more than 3300 participants from China, Germany and the US, this paper empirically analyzes citizens' perceptions of climate change and climate policy, focusing on key guiding principles for sharing mitigation costs across countries. The ranking of the main...

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Equality, opportunity, ambiguity

Sreenivasan, Gopal - In: Politics, philosophy & economics : ppe 13 (2014) 1, pp. 82-92

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