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21Freedom's Value: Some Persisting Questions for Amartya Sen's Capability ApproachJurisprudence 5 (2): 369-375. 2014.
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11Preferences and Well-Being (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2006.Preferences are often thought to be relevant for well-being: respecting preferences, or satisfying them, contributes in some way to making people's lives go well for them. A crucial assumption that accompanies this conviction is that there is a normative standard that allows us to discriminate between preferences that do, and those that do not, contribute to well-being. The papers collected in this volume, written by moral philosophers and philosophers of economics, explore a number of central i…Read more
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8Preference change and interpersonal comparisons of welfareIn Preferences and Well-Being, Cambridge University Press. pp. 265-279. 2006.Preferences are often thought to be relevant for well-being: respecting preferences, or satisfying them, contributes in some way to making people's lives go well for them. A crucial assumption that accompanies this conviction is that there is a normative standard that allows us to discriminate between preferences that do, and those that do not, contribute to well-being. The papers collected in this volume, written by moral philosophers and philosophers of economics, explore a number of central i…Read more
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8A Non-Remedial Case for a Temporary Migration Package?Law, Ethics and Philosophy 9 114-128. 2023.
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7Equality of Opportunity and Justified Inequalities: How the Family Can Be on Equality’s SideIn Markus Stepanians & Michael Frauchiger (eds.), Reason, Justification, and Contractualism: Themes from Scanlon, De Gruyter. pp. 91-108. 2021.
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2Distributive justice and compensatory desertIn Desert and justice, Oxford University Press. 2003.The compensatory desert argument is an argument that purports to justify inequalities in (some) incomes generated by a free labour market. It holds, first, that the principle of compensation is a principle of desert; second, that a distribution justified by a principle of desert is just; and third, that (some) rewards people reap on a free labour market are compensation for costs they incur. It concludes that therefore, a distribution of (some) rewards generated by a free labour market is just. …Read more
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1Choice, Circumstance and the Costs of ChildrenIn Stephen de Wijze, Matthew H. Kramer & Ian Carter (eds.), Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice, Routledge. 2009.
Serena Olsaretti
ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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ICREA & Universitat Pompeu FabraProfessor
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Justice |
Freedom and Liberty |
Equality |