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Social Status, Inequality, and Redistribution

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We explore implications of social status concerns for redistribution, income inequality, and growth in a political economy framework. Salience of such concerns leads to a propagation mechanism, whereby initial income inequality and reduced willingness to redistribute income reinforce each other, potentially giving rise to multiple steady ...
Mark Gradstein, Luigi Ventura
wiley   +1 more source

Towards silence: Thomas Mofolo, small literatures and poor translation

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2016
In his 2008 Nobel lecture, J. M. G. Le Clézio salutes all the writers with whom he lived, and at times against whom he argued, especially African writers: Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mongo Beti, Alan Paton, with a concluding reference ...
Alain Ricard
doaj   +1 more source

‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Rawls' Fiction: The Veil of Ignorance Is Real [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Brief thoughts on why Rawls' "fictional" veil of ignorance is in fact real and why social morals and self-interest thus ...
Lloyd, Harold Anthony
core   +1 more source

Voting Behind the Veil of Ignorance

open access: yes
A committee consisting of two factions is considering a project whose distributive consequences are unknown. This uncertainty can be resolved at some unknown future time. By delaying approval, the committee can gradually learn which faction benefits from the project.
openaire   +2 more sources

Allocation criteria under task performance: the gendered preference for protection [PDF]

open access: yes
We device a randomized experiment with task performance in which players directly decide allocation criteria (with/without) veil of ignorance on payoff distribution under different criteria in a stakeholder/spectator position. Our main result is a strong
Stefania Ottone   +3 more
core  

K problému autonómie jednotlivca na pozadí utilitaristického charakteru Teórie spravodlivosti Johna Rawlsa

open access: yesFilozofia
Rawls’ concept of individual autonomy emphasizes rational decision-making in creating a just social order behind the veil of ignorance. Rawls considers the individual as a rational actor of the social contract and proceeds from a hypothetical ...
Jakub Švec
doaj   +1 more source

Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning and Justification of Moral Judgments

open access: yes, 2020
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options.
Huang, Karen
core  

From ‘Lack of Insight’ to Being a Knower: A Personal Turning Point in Psychiatric Inpatient Care

open access: yesJournal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background At times, the psychiatric inpatient system pathologizes patient perspectives as ‘lack of insight’, framing survival strategies as DSM symptoms. In these moments, power imbalances emerge that risk silencing patients' experiential knowledge.
Jennie Moberg
wiley   +1 more source

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