Titlebook: Distributive Justice and Inequality; A Selection of Paper Wulf Gaertner,Prasanta K. Pattanaik Conference proceedings 1988 Springer-Verlag B

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Lives and Well-Being,ed that non-existence is not a state and therefore that different numbers problems are conceptionally different from same numbers problems that concern much theoretical welfare economics. By means of examples it is argued that we should not expect to find an overall ethical ordering of social states

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Consequentialist Demographic Norms and Parenting Rights,risk to trees in which the population is a variable consequence — i.e., endogenous. Given a form of ethical liberalism and ethical irrelevance of distant ancestors, classical utilitarianism is implied (provided also that a weak continuity condition is met). The “repugnant conclusion” that having man

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Income Inequality, Welfare and Poverty in a Developing Economy with Applications to Sri Lanka,lysis is based on Kuznet’s model of sectorial dualism. The various propositions proved in the paper provide conditions under which the modern sector enlargement and enrichment will lead to higher social welfare and lower income inequality and poverty. It is demonstrated that Kuznet’s .-shaped curve

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A Note on Minimally Progressive Taxation and Absolute Income Inequality,liability is increasing with income (Jakobsson 1976; Eichhorn et al. 1984). It is shown in this note that the absolute inequality of incomes (Kolm 1976) is unambiguously reduced by taxation if, and only if, tax liability is increasing with income.

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