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THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE VIOLATES PRIORITY

Economics and Philosophy, 2008
The veil of ignorance has been used often as a tool for 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. In order to do so, we introduce the concept of objective empathy.
Juan D. Moreno-Ternero, John E. Roemer
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Public finance and welfare: From the ignorance of the veil to the veil of ignorance

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2006
Abstract Present-day welfare states may survive as long as bureaucracies and governments can create “optimistic” illusions among taxpayers–voters. This setting is destined to fail and indirectly to open up the pathway for a constitutional welfare state.
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The veil of public ignorance

Journal of Economic Theory, 2004
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On Measuring Welfare ‘Behind a Veil of Ignorance’

Social Choice and Welfare, 2020
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Managing risk through the veil of ignorance

Journal of Risk Research, 2013
Background. We view overconfidence within risk management as a problem likely to manifest within philosophical preferences for anticipationism over resilienism, and in assumptions that risks are objectively real external powers or potentialities rather than subjective knowledge propositions. Methods.
Marshall, Alasdair James, Ojiako, Udechukwu   +1 more
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Apportionment Behind the Veil of Ignorance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
To bring apportionment closer to quotas or the apportionment quotient closer to the population quotient, instead of using “distance,” we introduce f-divergence for utilitarianism and Bregman divergence for suitable optimization. Even in our relaxed condition, we find that we must use alpha-divergence for optimization and show that the minimization of ...
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Bob Lake's veil of ignorance

Dialogues in Urban Research
Resist Bob Lake's theory of theory. And while his argument that he has no theory of theory is disingenuous, he is nonetheless right that it is no theory at all. It is a straw argument. And a dangerous one that suggests that ignorance is a value of the highest order.
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The Veil of Ignorance and Health Resource Allocation

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2012
Some authors view the veil of ignorance as a preferred method for allocating resources because it imposes impartiality by stripping deliberators of knowledge of their personal identity. Using some prominent examples of such reasoning in the health care sector, I will argue for the following claims.
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The ACA from behind the “Veil of Ignorance”

Hastings Center Report, 2017
AbstractJohn Rawls posited that we could determine the nature of justice if we imagined ourselves observing conditions in society from behind a hypothetical “veil of ignorance.” Not knowing how or where we would end up—rich, poor, empowered, disabled—we would choose governing principles that did not leave one disadvantaged because of his or her ...
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Perdurantism, fecklessness and the veil of ignorance

Philosophical Studies, 2019
There has been a growing charge that perdurantism—with its bloated ontology of very person-like objects that coincide persons—implies the repugnant conclusion that we are morally obliged to be feckless. I argue that this charge critically overlooks the epistemic situation—what I call the ‘veil of ignorance’—that perdurantists find themselves in. Though
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