Marc Fleurbaey is senior researcher at CNRS (Paris), Lachmann Fellow at the LSE (London), and a member of IDEP (Marseilles). He has previously been a professor of economics and an economist at INSEE. He has published extensively on welfare economics, fairness, inequality. He has been an editor of Economics and Philosophy and is a managing editor of Social Choice and Welfare.

Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare offers various important insights into the seemingly complex topic of distrbutive implications of holding people partly responsible for their achievements...the content of the book is easily attainable for a broader audience...it will be one of the more important references for both economists and philosophers working in the field of distributive justice.

• Introduction ; 1. Defining Fairness ; 2. Distributing Fairly ; 3. Introduction to Incentive Issues ; 4. Unequal skills ; 5. Income Redistribution ; 6. Risk, Insurance, and Option Luck ; 7. Fresh Starts ; 8. Utilitarian Reward ; 9. Inequalities of Opportunity and Social Mobility ; 10. Responsibility, Freedom, and Social Justice

Marc Fleurbaey is senior researcher at CNRS (Paris), Lachmann Fellow at the LSE (London), and a member of IDEP (Marseilles). He has previously been a professor of economics and an economist at INSEE. He has published extensively on welfare economics, fairness, inequality. He has been an editor of Economics and Philosophy and is a managing editor of Social Choice and Welfare.

Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare offers various important insights into the seemingly complex topic of distrbutive implications of holding people partly responsible for their achievements...the content of the book is easily attainable for a broader audience...it will be one of the more important references for both economists and philosophers working in the field of distributive justice.

• Introduction ; 1. Defining Fairness ; 2. Distributing Fairly ; 3. Introduction to Incentive Issues ; 4. Unequal skills ; 5. Income Redistribution ; 6. Risk, Insurance, and Option Luck ; 7. Fresh Starts ; 8. Utilitarian Reward ; 9. Inequalities of Opportunity and Social Mobility ; 10. Responsibility, Freedom, and Social Justice

Marc Fleurbaey is senior researcher at CNRS (Paris), Lachmann Fellow at the LSE (London), and a member of IDEP (Marseilles). He has previously been a professor of economics and an economist at INSEE. He has published extensively on welfare economics, fairness, inequality. He has been an editor of Economics and Philosophy and is a managing editor of Social Choice and Welfare.

Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare offers various important insights into the seemingly complex topic of distrbutive implications of holding people partly responsible for their achievements...the content of the book is easily attainable for a broader audience...it will be one of the more important references for both economists and philosophers working in the field of distributive justice.

• Introduction ; 1. Defining Fairness ; 2. Distributing Fairly ; 3. Introduction to Incentive Issues ; 4. Unequal skills ; 5. Income Redistribution ; 6. Risk, Insurance, and Option Luck ; 7. Fresh Starts ; 8. Utilitarian Reward ; 9. Inequalities of Opportunity and Social Mobility ; 10. Responsibility, Freedom, and Social Justice