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Social Ethics and Normative Economics

Essays in Honour of Serge-Christophe Kolm

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Marc Fleurbaey

    1. , CERSES, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France

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  2. Maurice Salles

    1. , CREM, UMR-CNRS 6211, University of Caen, Caen Cedex, France

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  3. John A. Weymark

    1. , Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

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  • High-quality scientific contributions on key questions of normative economics
  • Original commentary on and presentation of some known and less well-known contributions by Serge Kolm
  • With a complete list of Kolm's scientific publications
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Choice and Welfare (WELFARE)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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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

    Pages 339-357
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , 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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