Social Ethics and Normative Economics

1. Front Matter

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2. An Introduction to Social Ethics and Normative Economics

   • Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles, John A. Weymark

   Pages 1-18

3. Kolm as a Contributor to Public Utility Pricing, Second-Best Culture, and the Theory of Regulation

   • Laurent David, Michel Le Breton, Olivier Merillon

   Pages 19-56

4. Public Utility Pricing and Capacity Choice with Stochastic Demand

   • Laurent David, Michel Le Breton, Olivier Merillon

   Pages 57-99

5. Bidimensional Inequalities with an Ordinal Variable

   • Nicolas Gravel, Patrick Moyes

   Pages 101-127

6. Inequality of Life Chances and the Measurement of Social Immobility

   • Jacques Silber, Amedeo Spadaro

   Pages 129-154

7. Partnership, Solidarity, and Minimal Envy in Matching Problems

   • Koichi Tadenuma

   Pages 155-167

8. Borrowing-Proofness of the Lindahl Rule in Kolm Triangle Economies

   • William Thomson

   Pages 169-191

9. When Kolm Meets Mirrlees: ELIE

   • Laurent Simula, Alain Trannoy

   Pages 193-216

10. Kolm’s Tax, Tax Credit, and the Flat Tax

    • Marc Fleurbaey, François Maniquet

    Pages 217-239

11. Positional Equity and Equal Sacrifice: Design Principles for an EU-Wide Income Tax?

    • Peter J. Lambert

    Pages 241-259

12. Comparing Societies with Different Numbers of Individuals on the Basis of Their Average Advantage

    • Nicolas Gravel, Thierry Marchant, Arunava Sen

    Pages 261-277

13. On Kolm’s Use of Epistemic Counterfactuals in Social Choice Theory

    • John A. Weymark

    Pages 279-301

14. Optimal Redistribution in the Distributive Liberal Social Contract

    • Jean Mercier Ythier

    Pages 303-325

15. Reciprocity and Norms

    • Jon Elster

    Pages 327-337

16. Back Matter

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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 comparing distributions of riches and advantages? How should intergenerational social immobility and inequality in circumstances be measured? What is a fair way to form partnerships? How vulnerable to manipulation is the Lindahl rule for allocating public goods? What are the properties of Kolm's ELIE tax proposal? Would the addition of EU-level income taxes enhance equity? How should we compare different scenarios for future societies with different population sizes? How can domain conditions in social choice theory be justified using Kolm's epistemic counterfactuals? How can Kolm's distributive liberal contract be implemented? What are the implications of norms of reciprocity for the organization of society? The answers to these questions give major insight into the state-of-the-art of social ethics and normative economics and are thus an indispensable source for researchers in both of these fields.

• Normative Economics
• Public Economics
• Social Choice
• Social Ethics
• Welfare Economics

• , CERSES, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France

  Marc Fleurbaey

• , CREM, UMR-CNRS 6211, University of Caen, Caen Cedex, France

  Maurice Salles

• , Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

  John A. Weymark

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