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Empirical Social Choice : Questionnaire-Experimental Studies on Distributive Justice, EPUB eBook

Empirical Social Choice : Questionnaire-Experimental Studies on Distributive Justice EPUB

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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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