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Comparing Fairness : Relative Criteria of Economic Fairness with Applications.

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Economic theory and philosophy have discussed concepts of fairness, but the criteria of fairness are in each case absolute: a situation is either fair or it is not. This book draws on these literatures to propose two criteria of relative fairness, and a hierarchical rule for the priority of applicat...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: McCain, Roger A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2021.
Subjects:
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Economics.
Fairness.
Economic policy.
Economic policy > Moral and ethical aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • 1. Fairness in a system of cooperative, joint production
  • 2. Decision, cooperation and stability
  • 3. Side payments in effectivity analysis of cooperative games
  • 4. Efficiency and fairness
  • 5. The veil of ignorance
  • 6. Intergenerational transfers
  • 7. Intergenerational transfers: some complications
  • 8. Interregional fairness, migration and efficiency
  • 9. Policy, externality, gilets jaunes and interregional fairness
  • 10. Fairness from the perspective of an individual or group
  • 11. Fair wages and prices.
  • 12. Fairness from the perspective of a caste or race
  • 13. Concluding summary
  • Index.

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