This paper examines how people assess inequality of an income distribution and how inequality could be measured. We start from philosophical analysis of L Temkin who distinguishes nine plausible aspects of inequality. His approach is based on the concept of 'complaints' or distances between...

Recently many philosophers and social choice theorists have questioned traditional welfare egalitarianism by introducing a notion of responsibility. They propose to distinguish between two sets of individual characteristics: those for which individuals are to be kept responsible and those for...

This paper deals with the question: How can one incorporate modern responsibility-catering egalitarianism into the economic theory on the measurement of income inequality? We first concisely describe what is meant by responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism and present a particular axiomatic...

We present the results of a questionnaire study in Belgium, Burkina Faso and Indonesia focusing on the problem of the just allocation of an indivisible good. The formal axioms proposed in social choice theory are helpful in structuring the response patterns. Interindividual differences can be...

Although a priori company screening is a constitutive feature of socially responsible investment (SRI) funds, it is not easy to substantiate that such screening effectively differentiates between companies on the basis of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) calibre. Fundamentally, this...

Since the first successful renal transplant in 1954, many kidney patients saw their hopes for a better future dashed by the continuous lack of donor kidneys. A regulated market for living donor kidneys has been proposed in order to match supply to demand and to stop illegal and immoral practices...

In dit artikel stellen we een innovatieve methode voor om de maatschappelijke opinie over duurzaam en maatschappelijk verantwoord beleggen gestructureerd vast te leggen in een bruikbaar referentiekader. We illustreren de methode met behulp van één expertopinie en passen het resulterende...