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Taxation behind the veil of ignorance
Social Choice and Welfare, 2021 We explore the design of impartial tax schemes in a simple setup where agents’ incomes are completely determined by their inborn talents. Building on Harsanyi’s veil-of-ignorance approach, we conceptualize an impartial observer who chooses a tax scheme without knowing her own preferences and the distribution of talents, and whose vNM preferences behind
Biung-Ghi Ju, Juan D. Moreno-Ternero
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Abortion and the veil of ignorance: a response to Minehan [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021 In a recent JME paper, Matthew John Minehan applies John Rawls’ veil of ignorance against Judith Thomson’s famous violinist argument for the permissibility of abortion. Minehan asks readers to ‘imagine that one morning you are back to back in bed with another person. One of you is conscious and the other unconscious. You do not know which one you are’.
Räsänen, Joona
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Piercing the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
, 2008 Theories of justice in the spirit of Harsanyi and Rawls argue that fair-minded people should aspire to make choices for society — that is, for themselves and for others — as if in the original position, behind a veil of ignorance that prevents them from knowing their own social and economic positions in society.
Kariv, Shachar, Zame, William R.
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Optimal Inequality Behind the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Liang, Che-Yuan
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Understanding and criticizing criminal justice on the basis of Rawls' Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2022 "A Theory of Justice" is a project in the Kantian school by John Rawls, the twentieth-century philosopher. The "Veil of Ignorance" is one of the prominent notions of his theory of justice, which is born in another abstract concept as the "Original ...
Bozorgmehr Bashiriyeh +3 more
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Objectivity, priority, and the veil of ignorance [PDF]
, 2005 The veil of ignorance has been used often as a tool of recommending what justice requires with respect to the distribution of wealth. We complete Harsanyi's model of the veil of ignorance by appending information permitting objective comparisons among persons.
MORENO-TERNERO, Juan D., ROEMER, John E.
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Power indices and the veil of ignorance [PDF]
International Journal of Game Theory, 2003 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Annick Laruelle, Federico Valenciano
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Behind the veil of ignorance: Self-serving bias in climate change negotiations [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2011 Slowing climate change will almost certainly require a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, but agreement on who should reduce emissions by how much is difficult, in part because of the self-serving bias—the tendency to believe that what is beneficial ...
Peter H. Kriss +3 more
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JUSTICE FROM NOWHERE: ETHICO-POLITICAL OBJECTIVITY IN THOMAS NAGEL AND JOHN RAWLS
Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 The question regarding the relationship between ethics and politics has always occupied the minds of philosophers and political theorists. Thomas Nagel is one philosopher among others who clearly draws a close link between the ethical and the political ...
Hatice Karaman
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 This study demonstrates that a decision-making process utilising ‘the veil of ignorance’ concept, defined in process terms as beginning from a blank slate encompassing the entire country as potential sites and shortlisting candidate sites based on ...
Miki Yokoyama +4 more
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