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Economic Analysis of Trade-offs between Justices
We argue that economics - as the scientific method of analysing trade-offs - can be helpful (and may even be indispensable) for assessing the trade-offs between intergenerational and intragenerational justice. Economic analysis can delineate the "opportunity set" of politics with respect to the two normative objectives of inter- and intragenerational justice, i.e. it can describe which outcomes are feasible in achieving the two objectives in a given context, and which are not. It can distinguish efficient from inefficient uses of instruments of justice. It can identify the "opportunity cost" of attaining one justice to a higher degree, in terms of less achievement of the other. We find that, under very general conditions, (1) efficiency in the use of instruments of justice implies that there is rivalry between the two justices and the opportunity cost of either justice is positive; (2) negative opportunity costs of achieving one justice exist if there is facilitation between the two justices, which can only happen if instruments of justice are used inefficiently; (3) opportunity costs of achieving one justice are zero if the two justices are independent of each other, which is the case in the interior of the opportunity set where instruments of justice are used inefficiently.
- Weitere Titel
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Ökonomische Analyse der Trade-offs zwischen Gerechtigkeiten
- ISSN
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2190-6335
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 4-9
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Intergenerational Justice Review(1)
- Thema
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Ökologie
Wirtschaft
Ökologie und Umwelt
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Gerechtigkeit
Nachhaltigkeit
nachhaltige Entwicklung
Effizienz
Generationenverhältnis
Ressourcen
Knappheit
ökonomische Theorie
ökonomisches Verhalten
Opportunitätskosten
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Baumgärtner, Stefan
Glotzbach, Stefanie
Hoberg, Nikolai
Quaas, Martin F.
Stumpf, Klara Helene
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutschland
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2012
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-62016-9
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Baumgärtner, Stefan
- Glotzbach, Stefanie
- Hoberg, Nikolai
- Quaas, Martin F.
- Stumpf, Klara Helene
Entstanden
- 2012