A positive theory of economic fairness

A Theory of Fairness in Trade

A Theory of Reference-Dependent Fairness Preferences

Economic agents care about more than their own payo¤, as has been well documented by recent theoretical and experimental work on the economics of fairness. This paper develops a theory of how people’s distributional preferences depend on nonoutcome aspects of games. People care about how unequal allocations are, but they dislike inequalities more when those inequalities are more avoidable. Conv...

A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation

There is strong evidence that people exploit their bargaining power in competitivemarkets but not in bilateral bargaining situations. There is also strong evidence that people exploit free-riding opportunities in voluntary cooperation games. Yet, when they are given the opportunity to punish free riders, stable cooperation is maintained, although punishment is costly for those who punish. This ...

An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness

The tradeoff between fairness and throughput has been widely observed in network analysis and protocol design. Despite many existing fairness metrics (from simple ones like Jain’s index to more complex ones like α-fair utility), the meaning of fairness is largely based on problemoriented interpretations and judgments, with no well-established framework. To tackle this challenging problem, we pr...

applying transitivity theory to gender analysis of efl textbook: : a comparative study.

efl/esl textbooks have been regarded as essential language teaching materials with which the learners spend about 70 up to 90 percent of their class time. the important role they play and their vast use make them not only influential in learning the language but also in shaping values and attitudes. put it another way, textbooks socialize learners using their contents (i.e. texts, illustrations...