Empirical Social Choice - Questionnaire-Experimental Studies on Distributive Justice

Informationen zum Autor Wulf Gaertner is Professor of Economics at the University of Osnabrück. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. Erik Schokkaert is Full Professor and Director of the Centre for Economics and Ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven. Klappentext The first self-contained analysis of the use of questionnaire data to test theories of distributive justice. Zusammenfassung Since Aristotle! many different theories of distributive justice have been proposed. 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 questionnaire experiments. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Why and how?; 3. Traditional questions; 4. Fairness; 5. Fairness in health; Final remarks; References; Index.

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• Authors: Wulf Gaertner, Wulf (Universitat Osnabruck) Gaertner, Wulf (Universitat Osnabruck) Schokkaert Gaertner, Wulf Schokkaert Gaertner, Gaertner Wulf, Erik Schokkaert, Erik (Universite Catholique de Louvain Schokkaert, Schokkaert Erik
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2011
• EAN: 9781107013940
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01394-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Microeconomics