Fairness, responsibility, and welfare

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Why responsibility?......Page 12
Responsibility and economics......Page 14
Responsibility and philosophy......Page 18
Is responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism half-libertarian or half-utilitarian?......Page 21
Outline of the book......Page 23
*General mathematical conventions......Page 25
1.1 Introduction......Page 26
1.2 *Model and notations......Page 27
1.3 An example......Page 29
1.4 The reward problem......Page 31
1.5 Compensation, neutrality and no-envy......Page 32
1.6 Analyzing compensation......Page 36
1.7 Analyzing neutrality......Page 40
1.8 *Fairness conditions......Page 45
1.9 *The distribution case......Page 50
1.10 Conclusion......Page 51
2.1 Introduction......Page 52
2.2 Impossibilities and incompatibilities......Page 53
2.3 *The compensation-neutrality trade-off......Page 55
2.4 Weakening no-envy......Page 60
2.5 *No-envy rankings......Page 65
2.6 Conditional equality, egalitarian-equivalence......Page 72
2.7 *Characterization results......Page 75
2.8 Conclusion......Page 82
3.1 Introduction......Page 84
3.2 From allocation rules to social orderings......Page 85
3.3 *Social ordering functions......Page 86
3.4 Incentives......Page 92
3.5 *Optimal compensation policies......Page 99
3.6 Multiple goods and in-kind transfers......Page 107
3.7 *Satiation......Page 109
3.8 Conclusion......Page 110
4.1 Introduction......Page 112
4.2 *The model......Page 115
4.3 Compensation and neutrality......Page 116
4.4 *Axioms of fairness......Page 118
4.5 Conditional-equality solutions......Page 121
4.6 Egalitarian-equivalent solutions......Page 124
4.7 *Refinements of no-envy......Page 127
4.8 *Characterizations......Page 132
4.9 Conclusion......Page 137
5.1 Introduction......Page 138
5.2 From allocation rules to social orderings......Page 139
5.3 *Social ordering functions......Page 141
5.4 Fair income tax......Page 145
5.5 *Analyzing taxes......Page 150
5.6 *Unearned income......Page 157
5.7 Skills and quality of life......Page 159
5.8 Education and skills......Page 160
5.9 Conclusion......Page 161
6.1 Introduction......Page 164
6.2 The luck factor......Page 166
6.3 Comprehensive well-being......Page 167
6.4 An ex post evaluation......Page 168
6.5 Two criteria......Page 171
6.6 *Risky actions and incentives......Page 175
6.7 *The intrinsic failure of insurance markets......Page 177
6.8 Dworkin's hypothetical insurance......Page 183
6.9 Conclusion......Page 186
7.1 Introduction......Page 188
7.2 Freedom and forgiveness......Page 190
7.3 Fresh start policies: an outline......Page 194
7.4 *Savings and moans......Page 198
7.5 Education, earnings, savings......Page 206
7.6 Conclusion......Page 208
8.1 Introduction......Page 210
8.2 Two social orderings......Page 211
8.3 Another compensation-reward dilemma......Page 213
8.4 *Axiomatic analysis......Page 217
8.5.1 *The TU case......Page 224
8.5.2 *The distribution case......Page 226
8.5.3 Unequal skills and income taxation......Page 227
8.6 A statistical measurement of responsibility......Page 228
8.7 Alternative approaches to reward......Page 232
8.8 Conclusion......Page 235
9.1 Introduction......Page 236
9.2 *Inequality indices......Page 237
9.3 Social mobility and social welfare......Page 241
9.4 *Social welfare decomposed......Page 243
9.5 Opportunity dominance versus compensation......Page 247
9.6 The partial-circumstance problem......Page 251
9.7 *More on the partial-circumstance problem......Page 252
9.8 Conclusion......Page 255
10.1 Introduction......Page 256
10.2 The responsibility cut......Page 258
10.3 Responsibility or freedom......Page 264
10.4 Preference liability versus welfarism......Page 269
10.5 The responsibility sphere......Page 271
10.6 Ex-post inequalities matter......Page 274
10.7 Egalitarian-equivalence......Page 278
10.8 Equality of autonomy......Page 283
10.9 Conclusion......Page 286
Bibliography......Page 288
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