Book
Comparing fairness: relative criteria of economic fairness with applications
2021
Abstract
Economic theory and philosophy have discussed concepts of fairness, but the criteria of fairness are in each case absolute: a situation is either fair or it is not. This book draws on these literatures to propose two criteria of relative fairness, and a hierarchical rule for the priority of application of these criteria, with a view to comparison of practicable alternatives in public policy.
Contents: 1. Fairness in a system of cooperative, joint production -- 2. Decision, cooperation and stability -- 3. Side payments in effectivity analysis of cooperative games -- 4. Efficiency and fairness -- 5. The veil of ignorance -- 6. Intergenerational transfers -- 7. Intergenerational transfers: Some complications -- 8. Interregional fairness, migration and efficiency -- 9. Policy, externality, gilets jaunes and interregional fairness -- 10. Fairness from the perspective of an individual or group -- 11. Fair wages and prices -- 12. Fairness from the perspective of a caste or race -- 13. Concluding summary -- Index.
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Details
- Title
- Comparing fairness
- Creators
- Roger A McCain
- Series
- Economics 2021
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing; Cheltenham, UK
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Number of pages
- 240 pages
- Resource Type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85130668278
- Other Identifier
- 9781839108013; 9781839108020; 991019173813704721