Behavioral welfare economics and redistribution

Fleurbaey, Marc;Schokkaert, Erik
(2013) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics — Vol. 5, n° 3, p. 180-205 (2013)

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  • Fleurbaey, MarcPrinceton University
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  • Schokkaert, ErikKatholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Behavioral economics has shaken the view that individuals have well-defined, consistent, and stable preferences. This raises a challenge for welfare economics, which takes as a key postulate that individual preferences should be respected. We argue, in agreement with Bernheim (2009)and Bernheim and Range l(2009), that behavioral economics is compatible with consistency of partial preferences, and explore how the Bernheim-Rangel approach can be extended to deal with distributive issues. We revisit some key results of the theory in a framework with partial preferences, and show how one can derive partial orderings of individual and social situations.
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Fleurbaey, M., & Schokkaert, E. (2013). Behavioral welfare economics and redistribution. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 5(3), 180-205. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.5.3.180 (Original work published 2013)