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Deliberative Democracy and Precautionary Public Reasoning : Exploratory Thoughts
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006-05)
Because public policy is legally binding and,perhaps more pointedly,can have pervasive social and environmental
consequences for the autonomy of persons,it should be justifiable to those it could so affect.
What is much ...
Financing higher education : the case for a graduate tax
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006-05)
The debate whether university education should be “free” seems misconstrued. Even in a system
without tuition fees, someone will have to foot the bill. This paper argues that from the viewpoint of
justice, a strong case ...
Single-Peaked Choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-09)
Single-peaked preferences have played an important role in the literature ever since they were used by Black (1948) to formulate a domain restriction that is sufficient for the exclusion of cycles according to the majority ...
Non-Deteriorating Choice without Full Transitivity
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-08)
Although the theory of greatest-element rationalizability and maximal-element rationalizability under general domains and without full transitivity of rationalizing relations is well-developed in the literature, these ...
Flippable Pairs and Subset Comparisons in Comparative Probability Orderings and Related Simple Games
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-10)
We show that every additively representable comparative probability order on n atoms is determined by at least n - 1 binary subset comparisons. We show that there are many orders of this kind, not just the lexicographic ...