Abstract In this paper, I reflect on the implications that ultimatum and dictator game experiments might have for public policy debates over egalitarianism. Experiments suggest people are more inclined to redistribute when outcomes influenced by luck than effort. This can create difficulties hold contrasting views whether or effort determine outcomes. The results also appear play into forms of ...

This thesis first critically analyzes John Rawls’s second principle of justice as a democratic conception of equality and the challenge posed to that conception by Ronald Dworkin’s ‘Equality of Resources.’ Democratic equality is defended over luck egalitarianism as an articulation of liberal egalitarianism. However, where Rawls deems social primary goods to be unconditionally regulated by insti...

Whether culture is a determinant of economic growth remains a core question in development economics. Sharing norms, in particular, have often been the focus of interest due to their influence on redistribution and incentives for productive activity. Yet, little is known about the relative importance of such norms in developing countries, and whether these norms are fully internalized or domain...

The present studies examined how observers infer moral attributes and beliefs from nonverbal pride displays. Pride is a self-focused positive emotion triggered by appraisals of the self's success, status, and competence. We hypothesized that when a target emits nonverbal cues of pride, he or she will be viewed by observers as higher in self-interest and therefore more likely to endorse ideologi...

The current research examined whether cross-national variation in egalitarianism predicts talent levels and organizational performance. We propose that national variation in egalitarianism predicts country-level talent because egalitarianism influences policymaking at the institutional level and everyday social interactions at the psychological level. We compared the relative impact of institut...

Previous studies have shown that egalitarianism maximizes expected social welfare in a contractarian original position with equally likely risk-averse agent tastes. The present paper characterizes agents by subsistence needs as well as by tastes, allows infinitely many possible need and taste profiles, and weakens the requirement that all possibilities be perceived as equally likely. Surplus-eg...