By what criteria should public policy be evaluated? Fairness and justice? Or the welfare of individuals? Debate over this fundamental question has spanned the a

Summary of, and response to criticism of, the authors' book, Fairness versus welfare (Harvard University Press, 2002).

Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell recently argued in their article, "Fairness Versus Welfare" that legal decision-makers should exclusively apply welfare economic

What is a fair distribution of resources and other goods when individuals are partly responsible for their achievements? This book develops a theory of fairness