Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define
a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and …

This chapter critically reviews a branch of literature that has recently developed in the
intersection between normative economics and distributional analysis, and which concerns …

During the last third of the twentieth century, political philosophers actively debated about
the content of distributive justice; the ruling ethical view of utilitarianism was challenged by …

Equally at home in economic theory and political philosophy, John Roemer has written a
unique book that critiques economists' conceptions of justice from a philosophical …

This handbook chapter reviews recent developments in the theory of optimal labor income
taxation. We emphasize connections between theory and empirical work that were initially …

I begin by recounting a true story-a rather trivial and innocuous story, as it happens, but one
with something of a lesson. Some years ago, when I went to give a lecture at another …

We study the difference between the ex post and ex ante perspectives in equality of
opportunity. We show that the well documented conflicts between compensation and reward …

We review the theory of fairness as it pertains to concretely specified problems of resource
allocations. We present punctual notions designed to evaluate how well individuals, or …

This study provides comparable lower-bound estimates of inequality of opportunity for
tertiary education (EIOp) for 31 countries in Europe, by using the two EU-SILC waves for …

This paper analyses the question of how to redistribute individual incomes if those incomes
are determined by the agents' characteristics. It is assumed that some of these …