Subjective value judgments of distributive justice and legal decision-making

Mingli Zheng ()

Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2018, vol. 2, issue 1, No 10, 177-194

Abstract: Abstract Distributive justice is a fundamental issue in the legal decision-making. We use Savage’s framework to derive a representation of subjective value judgments of distributive justice from the coherence of the decision-maker’s preferences over income distributions. The representation function can incorporate, in a unified way, the widely held beliefs such as inequality aversion, desert, and egalitarianism. We illustrate the application of the justice representation functions in law and economics by studying the distribution rules for different beliefs of distributive justice.

Keywords: Distributive justice; Deservedness; Savage axioms; Taxation; Contract (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 H20 K00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s41685-018-0077-1

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