Fairness, responsibility, and welfare

By Marc Fleurbaey. 2008

582 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Alain Trannoy
2. Gaston Yalonetzky
3. John E. Roemer
4. V. Peragine
5. Gustavo A. Marrero
6. Francisco H. G. Ferreira
7. Juan Gabriel Rodríguez
8. Daniele Checchi

In Political Science and International Relations

1. V. Peragine
2. John E. Roemer
3. Gaston Yalonetzky
4. Magne Mogstad
5. Erik Schokkaert
6. Francisco H. G. Ferreira
7. Gustavo A. Marrero
8. Alain Trannoy

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Gaston Yalonetzky
2. V. Peragine
3. Gustavo A. Marrero
4. Alain Trannoy
5. John E. Roemer
6. Francisco H. G. Ferreira
7. Marc Fleurbaey
8. Jérémie Gignoux

Citations in the corpus

• A Theory of Optimal Inheritance Taxation (2012, background): “One normatively appealing concept is that individuals should be compensated for inequality they are not responsible for–such as bequests received–but not for inequality they are responsible for–such as labor income (Fleurbaey, 2008).”
• Equality of opportunity and luck: Definitions and testable conditions, with an application to income in France (2009, background): “Fleurbaey (2008) proposes to decompose the outcome of option luck into two components : on the one hand, the individual choice of a specific lottery, which belongs to responsibility factors; on the other hand, the intrinsic randomness of outcome attached to any lottery, which is akin to luck.”
• Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity (2011, methodology): “…by philosophers such as Dworkin (1981a,b), Arneson (1989), Cohen (1989) and on the economic literature - initiated by Roemer (1993, 1998) - that has explored different ways in which the concept of equality of opportunity may be translated in formal economic models (see Fleurbaey 2008 for a survey).”
• Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence (2012, background): “A second approach contends that individuals ought to be held responsible for their preferences and the ensuing choices –as advocated, intera alia, by Rawls (1971), Dworkin (1981a, 1981b), Van Parijs (1995) and Fleurbaey (2008).”
• Measuring Unfair (in) Equality (2008, background): “…both the minimal requirement of unfair inequality elimination (or some version of it) and the minimal requirement of fair inequality preservation (Fleurbaey, 2008), and we consider three such alternatives in Section 7: two versions of the egalitarian equivalent principle and the conditional…”
• Ex ante versus ex post equality of opportunity (2013, methodology): “Here we put luck among circumstances, as in Fleurbaey (2008).”
• Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes Over Time and Across States (2012, background): “This definition is also related to Fleurbaey (2008)’s concept of circumstance equalization, whereby whenever such 12 For instance, Checchi and Peragine (2005), Lefranc et al. (2008); Ferreira and Gignoux (2008), Fleurbaey (2008).”
• Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (2016, background): “Fleurbaey (2008) and Fleurbaey and Peragine (2013) also prove that the clash between the compensation principle and the reward principle extends to the principle of utilitarian reward and weaker versions of the reward principle than natural reward.”
• Kantian optimization: A microfoundation for cooperation (2015, background): “The extensive literature in nonwelfarist theories of justice could be brought to bear (see Roemer, 1998; Fleurbaey, 2008).”
• Empirical Social Choice: Questionnaire-Experimental Studies on Distributive Justice (2011, background): “There is a whole philosophical debate about where to draw the line between effort and circumstances (see, e.g., Fleurbaey, 2008), but in some of his writings Roemer states explicitly that this boundary may be culture-dependent:”
• Cutthroat Capitalism versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking than Scandinavians? (2020, background): “See also Fleurbaey (2008) for an overview of the normative literature on fairness and the source of inequality.”
• A dissimilarity index of multidimensional inequality of opportunity (2010, background): “This particular de…nition can be further characterized by stating that it relates to a situation in which both Roemer’s assumption of charity and Fleurbaey’s equal well-being for equal responsibility Fleurbaey (2008) hold.”
• Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons (2013, background): “The ex-post approach to the compensation principle is more demanding, but a conceptual 7 These various distinctions are discussed in detail in Fleurbaey (2008).”
• The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity (2011, background): “See, for example, Cohen (1989), Dworkin (1981), Roemer (1998) and Fleurbaey (2008) for some of the classic references.”