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Empirical Social Choice

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  • Gaertner,Wulf
  • Schokkaert,Erik

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Since Aristotle, many different theories of distributive justice have been proposed, by philosophers as well as social scientists. The typical approach within social choice theory is to assess these theories in an axiomatic way ? most of the time the reader is confronted with abstract reasoning and logical deductions. This book shows that empirical insights are necessary if one wants to apply any theory of justice in the real world. It does so by confronting the main theories of distributive justice with data from (mostly) questionnaire experiments. The book starts with an extensive discussion on why empirical social choice makes sense and how it should be done. It then presents various experimental results relating to theories of distributive justice, including the Rawlsian equity axiom, Harsanyi's version of utilitarianism, utilitarianism with a floor, responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism, the claims problem and fairness in health.

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This book is provided by Cambridge University Press in its series Cambridge Books with number 9781107013940 and published in 2011.

Order: http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107013940
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Cited by:
  1. Christine Le CLAINCHE & Jerome WITTWER, 2012. "Risky Behaviours and Responsibility-Sensitive Fairness in a Non Life-Threatening Health Case: A European Study," Working Papers 12-18, LAMETA, Universtiy of Montpellier, revised Jun 2012.
  2. FLEURBAEY, Marc & SCHOKKAERT, Erik, 2011. "Equity in health and health care," CORE Discussion Papers 2011026, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
  3. Erwin OOGHE & Andreas PEICHL, 2010. "Fair and efficient taxation under partial control: theory and evidence," Center for Economic Studies - Discussion papers ces10.32, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centrum voor Economische Studiën.

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