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A theory of fairness and social welfare / created by Marc Fleurbaey and François Maniquet.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Econometric Society monographsPublisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: xx, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521887427
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM671 FLE
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"--
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Includes bibliographical references nd index.

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.

"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"--

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