Handbook of Economics and Ethics
Edited by Jan Peil and Irene van Staveren
- Handbook of Economics and Ethics
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Altruism
- Chapter 2: Thomas Aquinas
- Chapter 3: Aristotle
- Chapter 4: Jeremy Bentham
- Chapter 5: Buddhist Economics
- Chapter 6: Capability Approach
- Chapter 7: Catholic Social Thought
- Chapter 8: Code of Ethics for Economists
- Chapter 9: Consumerism
- Chapter 10: Corporate Social Responsibility
- Chapter 11: Deontology
- Chapter 12: Dignity
- Chapter 13: Discrimination
- Chapter 14: Economic Anthropology
- Chapter 15: Efficiency
- Chapter 16: Egoism
- Chapter 17: Epistemology
- Chapter 18: Equity
- Chapter 19: Ethics of Care
- Chapter 20: Fact/Value Dichotomy
- Chapter 21: Fairness
- Chapter 22: Feminism
- Chapter 23: Freedom
- Chapter 24: Game Theory
- Chapter 25: Globalization
- Chapter 26: Global Financial Markets
- Chapter 27: Happiness
- Chapter 28: Hedonism
- Chapter 29: Hinduism
- Chapter 30: Homo Economicus
- Chapter 31: Human Development
- Chapter 32: Humanism
- Chapter 33: Identity
- Chapter 34: Income Distribution
- Chapter 35: Individualism
- Chapter 36: Inequality
- Chapter 37: Institutions
- Chapter 38: Islam
- Chapter 39: Justice
- Chapter 40: Immanuel Kant
- Chapter 41: Labour Standards
- Chapter 42: Market
- Chapter 43: Karl Marx
- Chapter 44: Minimum Wages
- Chapter 45: Needs and Agency
- Chapter 46: Needs and Well-being
- Chapter 47: Pluralism
- Chapter 48: Positive-Normative Distinction in British History of Economic Thought
- Chapter 49: Positive versus Normative Economics
- Chapter 50: Postmodernism
- Chapter 51: Poverty
- Chapter 52: Prices
- Chapter 53: Protestant Ethics
- Chapter 54: Rationality
- Chapter 55: John Rawls
- Chapter 56: Realism
- Chapter 57: Religion
- Chapter 58: Rhetoric
- Chapter 59: Rights
- Chapter 60: Joan Robinson
- Chapter 61: Scarcity
- Chapter 62: Self-interest
- Chapter 63: Amartya Sen
- Chapter 64: Sin
- Chapter 65: Adam Smith
- Chapter 66: Social Capital
- Chapter 67: Social Economics
- Chapter 68: Solidarity
- Chapter 69: Sustainability
- Chapter 70: Teaching Economics
- Chapter 71: Trust
- Chapter 72: Utilitarianism
- Chapter 73: Thorstein Veblen
- Chapter 74: Virtue Ethics
- Chapter 75: Max Weber and the Protestant Work Ethic
- Index
Chapter 36: Inequality
Serge-Christophe Kolm
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- 30 Jun 2009
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Serge-Christophe Kolm Introduction When some people are treated more or less favourably than others without a seemingly valid reason, this inequality arouses a judgement of injustice which is conveyed in the term ‘inequality’. Such inequalities are a major issue for judging societies or policies and are often compared across time or societies, in particular by the media and politicians. Such comparisons are a priori highly problematic, however, since given any two unequal distributions of some item, one can most of the time show that any one is more unequal than the other and the converse, with reasons, comparisons and measures which, a priori, may all seem convincing. Does, for instance, growth tend to augment or diminish income inequality? Balanced growth followed by a fiscal partial redistribution of the gains diminishes inequality measured by ratios, but may augment inequality measured by differences. Inequality based on ratios is not changed when the pair 0.01 and 1 becomes the pair 0.1 and 10. Inequality based on differences is not changed when the pair 1 and 2 becomes the pair 11 and 12. Does a transfer from richer to poorer diminish inequality? It augments the pairwise inequalities between the richer and the still richer or equally rich and between the poorer and the still poorer and equally poor. One can pass from the income distribution of Australia to that of France (adjusted for population) by a sequence of such transfers, and yet Australia, with its large homogeneous middle class, seems a more egalitarian society....
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- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Altruism
- Chapter 2: Thomas Aquinas
- Chapter 3: Aristotle
- Chapter 4: Jeremy Bentham
- Chapter 5: Buddhist Economics
- Chapter 6: Capability Approach
- Chapter 7: Catholic Social Thought
- Chapter 8: Code of Ethics for Economists
- Chapter 9: Consumerism
- Chapter 10: Corporate Social Responsibility
- Chapter 11: Deontology
- Chapter 12: Dignity
- Chapter 13: Discrimination
- Chapter 14: Economic Anthropology
- Chapter 15: Efficiency
- Chapter 16: Egoism
- Chapter 17: Epistemology
- Chapter 18: Equity
- Chapter 19: Ethics of Care
- Chapter 20: Fact/Value Dichotomy
- Chapter 21: Fairness
- Chapter 22: Feminism
- Chapter 23: Freedom
- Chapter 24: Game Theory
- Chapter 25: Globalization
- Chapter 26: Global Financial Markets
- Chapter 27: Happiness
- Chapter 28: Hedonism
- Chapter 29: Hinduism
- Chapter 30: Homo Economicus
- Chapter 31: Human Development
- Chapter 32: Humanism
- Chapter 33: Identity
- Chapter 34: Income Distribution
- Chapter 35: Individualism
- Chapter 36: Inequality
- Chapter 37: Institutions
- Chapter 38: Islam
- Chapter 39: Justice
- Chapter 40: Immanuel Kant
- Chapter 41: Labour Standards
- Chapter 42: Market
- Chapter 43: Karl Marx
- Chapter 44: Minimum Wages
- Chapter 45: Needs and Agency
- Chapter 46: Needs and Well-being
- Chapter 47: Pluralism
- Chapter 48: Positive-Normative Distinction in British History of Economic Thought
- Chapter 49: Positive versus Normative Economics
- Chapter 50: Postmodernism
- Chapter 51: Poverty
- Chapter 52: Prices
- Chapter 53: Protestant Ethics
- Chapter 54: Rationality
- Chapter 55: John Rawls
- Chapter 56: Realism
- Chapter 57: Religion
- Chapter 58: Rhetoric
- Chapter 59: Rights
- Chapter 60: Joan Robinson
- Chapter 61: Scarcity
- Chapter 62: Self-interest
- Chapter 63: Amartya Sen
- Chapter 64: Sin
- Chapter 65: Adam Smith
- Chapter 66: Social Capital
- Chapter 67: Social Economics
- Chapter 68: Solidarity
- Chapter 69: Sustainability
- Chapter 70: Teaching Economics
- Chapter 71: Trust
- Chapter 72: Utilitarianism
- Chapter 73: Thorstein Veblen
- Chapter 74: Virtue Ethics
- Chapter 75: Max Weber and the Protestant Work Ethic
- Index