What's the monetary value of distributive justice?

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 289-308

  Corneo, Giacomo ^a   Fong, Christina M ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributive justice; Fairness; Governmental redistribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549072597     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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