Fairness versus Welfare /

Fairness versus Welfare / / Steven Shavell, Louis Kaplow.

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By what criteria should public policy be evaluated? Fairness and justice? Or the welfare of individuals? Debate over this fundamental question has spanned the ages. Fairness versus Welfare poses a bold challenge to contemporary moral philosophy by showing that most moral principles conflict more sha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Kaplow, Louis,
Shavell, Steven,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2002
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (570 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE. FRAMEWORK
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Welfare Economics and Notions of Fairness
  • PART TWO. ANALYSIS
  • III. Torts
  • IV. Contracts
  • V. Legal Procedure
  • VI. Law Enforcement
  • PART THREE. EXTENSIONS
  • VII. On the Use of Notions of Fairness and Welfare Economics by Different Types of Actors
  • VIII. Comments on the Breadth and Soundness of Welfare Economics
  • IX. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

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