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A theory of fairness and social welfare /

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0521715342 (paperback)

(Number (ISBN

0521887429 (hardback)

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9780521715348 (paperback)

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9780521887427 (hardback)

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b528070

Title Proper

A theory of fairness and social welfare /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Marc Fleurbaey, François Maniquet

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xx, 293 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Econometric society monographs

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-285) and index

Text of Note

I. Basics: 1. A contribution to welfare economics; 2. Efficiency versus equality; 3. Priority to the worst-off; 4. The informational basis of social orderings -- II. Distribution: 5. Fair distribution of divisible goods: two approaches; 6. Specific domains; 7. Extensions -- III. Production: 8. Public goods; 9. Private goods; 10. Unequal skills; 11. Income taxation; 12. Conclusions -- Appendix A: Proofs

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"The definition and measurement of social welfare have been a vexed issue for the past century. This book makes a constructive, easily applicable proposal and suggests how to evaluate the economic situation of a society in a way that gives priority to the worse-off and that respects each individual's preferences over his or her own consumption, work, leisure and so on. This approach resonates with the current concern to go 'beyond the GDP' in the measurement of social progress. Compared to technical studies in welfare economics, this book emphasizes constructive results rather than paradoxes and impossibilities, and shows how one can start from basic principles of efficiency and fairness and end up with concrete evaluations of policies. Compared to more philosophical treatments of social justice, this book is more precise about the definition of social welfare and reaches conclusions about concrete policies and institutions only after a rigorous derivation from clearly stated principles"--

Fairness

Social justice

Welfare economics

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Fleurbaey, Marc

Maniquet, François,1965-

Date of Transaction

20111024010754.0

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[Book]

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