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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The definition and measurement of social welfare have been a vexed issue for the past century. This book makes a constructive, easily applicable proposal and su
Language: en
Pages: 302
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-20 - Publisher: MIT Press
The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal definition of distrib
Language: en
Pages: 156
Pages: 156
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Transaction Publishers
In theory and practice, the notion of fairness is far from simple. The principle is often elusive and subject to confusion, even in institutions of law, usage,
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Although the relationship between fairness and the economic concept of efficiency is usually cast as an adversarial one, this collection demonstrates the robust