Fairness and Tax Policy: A Response to Mankiw's Proposed “Just Deserts”

The Medical Just Deserts

sense of equilibrium satisfied by execution, that is, the lex talionis, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. For retribution requires pain equal to that inflicted on the victim, plus an additional pain for committing the crime, crossing the threshold from law-abiding to lawviolative behavior. The state's killing a convicted offender, especially under the medically protective circumstances now use...

Developing vaccine policy: attributes of "just policy" and a proposed template to guide decision and policy making.

Scientists develop a vaccine to prevent a disease, collaborate ith manufacturers to establish its safety and efficacy and bring t to scale, and manufacturers then submit it for licensure by the ood and Drug Administration. Only then do federal public health uthorities, guided by the scientific evidence and expert opinion, ormulate recommendations for its use. In turn, such recommenations then s...

Fairness and Respect in Obesity Prevention Policies: A Response to David Buchanan

Procedural Fairness and Tax Compliance.

In the traditional deterrence approach, taxpayers were considered as purely self-interested rational agents (Allingham & Sandmo 1972), and consequently, compliance was enforced by measures such as audits and sanctions. In the late nineties, a new method of regulation was proposed. This approach, the responsive regulation (Ayres & Braithwaite 1992), integrated the various measures to ensure comp...

The Health Policy and Management (HPAM) Gap- From Diagnosis to Prescription: A Response to Recent Commentaries