Social Ethics and Normative Economics Essays in Honour of Serge-Christophe Kolm

This collection of thirteen essays on social ethics and normative economics honouring Serge-Christophe Kolm's seminal contributions to this field addresses the following questions: How should the public sector price its production and services? What are the normative foundations of criteria for...

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Other Authors: Fleurbaey, Marc (Editor), Salles, Maurice (Editor), Weymark, John A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011, 2011
Edition:1st ed. 2011
Series:Studies in Choice and Welfare
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • An Introduction to Social Ethics and Normative Economics
  • Kolm as a Contributor to Public Utility Pricing, Second-Best Culture, and the Theory of Regulation
  • Public Utility Pricing and Capacity Choice with Stochastic Demand
  • Bidimensional Inequalities with an Ordinal Variable
  • Inequality of Life Chances and the Measurement of Social Immobility
  • Partnership, Solidarity, and Minimal Envy in Matching Problems
  • Borrowing-Proofness of the Lindahl Rule in Kolm Triangle Economies
  • When Kolm Meets Mirrlees: ELIE
  • Kolm's Tax, Tax Credit, and the Flat Tax
  • Positional Equity and Equal Sacrifice: Design Principles for an EU-Wide Income Tax?
  • Comparing Societies with Different Numbers of Individuals on the Basis of Their Average Advantage
  • On Kolm's Use of Epistemic Counterfactuals in Social Choice Theory
  • Optimal Redistribution in the Distributive Liberal Social Contract
  • Reciprocity and Norms
  • Scientific Publications of Serge-Christophe Kolm