Measurement of inequality

FA Cowell - Handbook of income distribution, 2000 - Elsevier
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Social welfare functionals and interpersonal comparability

C d'Aspremont, L Gevers - Handbook of social choice and welfare, 2002 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews the SWFL approach to social choice. It does not attempt to be a
complete and systematic survey of existing results, but to give a critical assesment of the …

Recursive multiple-priors

LG Epstein, M Schneider - Journal of Economic Theory, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper axiomatizes an intertemporal version of multiple-priors utility. A central axiom is
dynamic consistency, which leads to a recursive structure for utility, to 'rectangular'sets of …

Ambiguity made precise: A comparative foundation

P Ghirardato, M Marinacci - Journal of Economic Theory, 2002 - Elsevier
The theory of subjective expected utility has been recently extended to allow ambiguity to
matter for choice. We propose a notion of absolute ambiguity aversion by building on a …

Equality of opportunity and luck: Definitions and testable conditions, with an application to income in France

A Lefranc, N Pistolesi, A Trannoy - Journal of public economics, 2009 - Elsevier
We offer a model of equality of opportunity that encompasses different conceptions
expressed in the public and philosophical debates. In addition to circumstances whose …

Equity and deprivation costs in humanitarian logistics

WJ Gutjahr, S Fischer - European Journal of Operational Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Recently, essential progress in quantitative modelling of humanitarian operations has been
made through the introduction of the deprivation cost concept by Holguín-Veras et al. The …

Assessing risky social situations

M Fleurbaey - Journal of Political Economy, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper reexamines the welfare economics of risk. It singles out a class of criteria, the
“expected equally distributed equivalent,” as the unique class that avoids serious drawbacks …

The political economy of public values: A case for the public sphere and progressive opportunity

B Bozeman, J Johnson - The American review of public …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
During the years that have elapsed since the publication of Moore's and Bozeman's quite
different theories of public value, a great deal of attention has been focused on the public …

Utility in social choice

W Bossert, JA Weymark - Handbook of utility theory: Volume 2 extensions, 2004 - Springer
In Arrovian [Arrow (1951, 1963)] social choice theory, the objective is to construct a social
welfare function~ a mapping which assigns a social preference ordering to each admissible …

[PDF][PDF] Compensation and responsibility

M Fleurbaey, F Maniquet - 2006 - shs.hal.science
Compensation and responsibility Page 1 HAL Id: halshs-00121367 https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00121367
Preprint submitted on 20 Dec 2006 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the …