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The Merits of Merit Wants

In: Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare

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  • Richard Sturn

    (University of Graz)

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Merit wants are a multi-faceted concept cutting through a complex array of problems associated with different levels of analysis. They are considered in this paper as a shorthand notion for concerns that are respectable and important, assuming a broadly individualist conception of welfare. So why are merit wants not a firmly established part of modern normative economics, given that simplifying, but still meaningful notions are suitable as conceptual starting point for a research program? In this paper I try to link the answer to this question with making explicit three levels of problems (limits of reason, higher order preferences, collective choice) which may be useful to locate and scrutinize various interpretations of and approaches to merit wants.

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  • Richard Sturn, 2015. "The Merits of Merit Wants," Studies in Choice and Welfare, in: Constanze Binder & Giulio Codognato & Miriam Teschl & Yongsheng Xu (ed.), Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare, edition 127, pages 289-308, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stcchp:978-3-662-46439-7_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-46439-7_16
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    1. Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay, 2017. "Paternalism and the public household. On the domestic origins of public economics," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-01560189, HAL.

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