Fairness in law and economics
By: edited by Lee Ann Fennell, Max Pam Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Research Scholar, University of Chicago Law School, USA and Richard H. McAdams, Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law and Aaron Director Research Scholar, University of Chicago Law School, USA
Series: Economic approaches to law series -- 40; An Elgar research collection
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 869
ISBN-13: 9781781005293
Subjects: Law and economics; Industrial efficiency; Social aspects; Cost effectiveness; Fairness; Economic aspects; Welfare economics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Incorporating fairness into game theory and economics / Matthew Rabin; title: In search of Homo Economicus: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies / Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis and Richard McElreath; title: Social preferences and fairness norms as informal institutions: experimental evidence / Pamela Jakiela; title: A theory of reciprocity / Armin Falk and Urs Fischbacher; title: The demand for punishment / Jeffrey P. Carpenter; title: Testing theories of fairness - intentions matter / Armin Falk and Urs Fischbacher; title: Fairness and redistribution / Alberto Alesina and George-Marios Angeletos; title: Fairness as a constraint on profit seeking: entitlements in the market / Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch and Richard H. Thaler; title: Biased judgments of fairness in bargaining / Linda Babcock, George Loewenstein, Samuel Issacharoff and Colin Camerer; title: Pretrial settlement with fairness / Amy Farmer and Paul Pecorino; title: Procedural fairness and compliance with the law / Tom R. Tyler; title: Introducing procedural utility: not only what, but also how matters / Bruno S. Frey, Matthias Benz and Alois Stutzer; title: Trust in authorities as a boundary condition to procedural fairness effects on tax compliance / Marius van Dijke and Peter Verboon; title: Economic costs of inequality / Richard H. McAdams; title: On the foundations of welfare economics: utility, capability, and practical reason / Amartya Sen; title: The trade-off between growth and equity / Kenneth J. Arrow; title: How should egalitarians cope with market risks? / Elizabeth Anderson; title: The conflict between notions of fairness and the Pareto Principle / Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell; title: "Any non-welfarist method of policy assessment violates the Pareto Principle / Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell; title: Kaplow and Shavell on the substance of fairness / Richard Craswell; title: Locating distribution / Jeremy Waldron; title: Preference, well-being and morality in social decisions / Lewis A. Kornhauser; title: Fairness versus welfare: notes on the Pareto Principle, preferences, and distributive justice / Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell; title: Feminism, fairness, and welfare: an invitation to feminist law and economics / Gillian K. Hadfield; title: Why the legal system is less efficient than the income tax in redistributing income / Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell; title: Behavioral economics analysis of redistributive legal rules / Christine Jolls; title: Taxes versus legal rules as instruments for equity: a more equitable view / Chris William Sanchirico; title: Should legal rules favor the poor? Clarifying the role of legal rules and the income tax in redistributing income / Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell; title: Dividing the indivisible / H. Peyton Young; title: Risk equity: a new proposal / Matthew D. Adler; title: Climate change and discounting the future: a guide for the perplexed / David Weisbach and Cass R. Sunstein; title: Equity, efficiency, and income tax theory: do misallocations drive out inequities? / Boris I. Bittker; title: Property, utility, and fairness: comments on the ethical foundations of "just compensation" / Frank I. Michelman; title: Contracts as reference points - experimental evidence / Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart and Christian Zehnder; title: An attempt in incorporate fairness into an economic model of tort law / Henrik Lando; title: The fairness of sanctions: some implications for optimal enforcement policy / A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell; title: Solomonic judgments: against the best interest of the child / Jon Elster.