Symposium on the ethics of economic ordeals: Introduction

Economics and Philosophy 37 Abstract Economic ordeals are allocation mechanisms that impose non-financial ‘deadweight costs to qualify for a transfer’ (Nichols and Zeckhauser 1982: 372). Examples include

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Putting costs and benefits of ordeals together

Economics and Philosophy 37 Abstract This paper addresses how to think about the permissibility of introducing deadweight costs (so-called ‘ordeals’) on candidate recipients of goods in order to attain b

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