How context matters: A survey based experiment on distributive justice

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 1399-1422

  Faravelli, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context; Distributive justice; Efficiency; Egalitarianism; Maximin; Utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249716316     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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