作者：Szymanski, S
作者单位：Imperial College London
摘要：This paper proposes a market test for racial discrimination in salary setting in English league soccer over the period 1978-93 using a balanced panel of 39 clubs. If there is a competitive market fur the services of players. the wage bill of the club will reflect their productivity and hence the performance of the club ill the league. Discrimination can be said to exist if clubs fielding an above-average proportion of black players systematically outperform clubs with a below-average proportio...
作者：Segal, U
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：This paper shows that a minimal degree of consideration for other people's well-being enables society to agree that one social policy is the best. I offer axioms that imply that this best policy maximizes a weighted sum of individual utilities. The weight of each individual is the inverse of his or her maximal possible utility from social endowments. The suggested policy is not sensitive to the choice of the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities. The key axiom is that individuals agree that giving...
