Fairness
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Garrett Cullity claims that his formal account of fairness has widespread practical application. Using an appeal to fairness, Cullity claims to have limited the extreme moral demand proposed in Peter Singer’s, ‘Famine, Affluence and... more
Specifically, the study determined the effect of fairness on procurement ethical practices; investigated the effect of transparency on procurement ethical practices; assessed the effect of integrity on procurement ethical practices; and... more
A construção da moeda única apresenta falhas ao nível dos mecanismos que deveriam garantir a convergência macroeconómica entre os países membros da União Europeia. Menos conhecidas e analisadas são as falhas na construção política, ou... more
We propose and experimentally test a mechanism for a class of principal-agent problems in which agents can observe each others' efforts. In this mechanism each player costlessly assigns a share of the pie to each of the other players,... more
As cloud computing services rapidly expand their customer base, it has become important to share cloud resources, so as to provide them economically. In cloud computing services, multiple types of resources, such as processing ability,... more
Fairness is an important factor that promotes social trust by reducing social heterogeneity and gaps between people. This paper empirically investigates whether gender equality – fairness between men and women – increases social trust by... more
This article addresses the concern that decision-making in sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI) asylum claims in Europe is often unfair, and that one way to remedy this is by improving the guidance provided to decision-makers when... more
This is the first draft of a paper commissioned for a collection of papers on the ethics of human enhancement, edited by Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu and others, to be published by Oxford University Press. The final version was... more
En el presente trabajo será mi propósito ofrecer un panorama de las diversas áreas de reflexión ética en torno al deporte que se han desarrollado durante estas últimas décadas, siendo consciente de que tal acercamiento no es exhaustivo... more
Personal data harvested in the Internet of Things not only promises to be particularly valuable, but also particularly privacy-sensitive. Analysed with the power of specialized Artificial Intelligence, such data allows for potentially... more
How could a state have the moral authority to promulgate and enforce laws that citizens are thereby obliged to obey? That is the problem of political authority. The Consequentialist Explanation of Political Authority contends that great... more
One of the main challenges family firms face is achieving fairness between family and non-family employees in the workplace. Family and non-family employees have the potential to offer unique and distinct contributions to the firm which... more
This conference presentation discussed the Johnson Neyman technique as an underused extension of standard steps for evaluating fairness of testing-based decisions. The basic steps of testing for fairness under the Cleary model are fairly... more
This study focuses on social change, resource management, cooperation, and fairness among Tzotzil-Maya communities in the highlands of Chiapas, southern Mexico. Maya groups in Chiapas have undergone drastic changes over the past five... more
Justice has been the topic of comparatively few papers in the fields of applied linguistics or language assessment. This may be due to the lack of a clear and agreed-upon definition on the one hand, or to the difficulty of... more
Using dozens of vivid examples to show how society overprescribed competition as a solution and when unbridled rivalry hurts consumers, kills entrepreneurship, and increases economic inequality, two free-market thinkers diagnose the... more
The controversial bell curve has received considerable attention in recent years as a grade distribution tool where “norm-referenced grading involves comparing students’ performances with each other” rather than where they fall on a... more
Globalisation has made the world today competing with unlimited network. In these circumstances, it change the capability of the employees where employees must prepare themselves with a lot of additional value so organisations can gain... more
A theoretical approach is presented of an organisational justice framework that may provide an enriched perspective to examine strategic change, enhancing the understanding, design, implementation, and effectiveness of strategic change... more
Machine Learning has become a popular tool in a variety of applications in criminal justice, including sentencing and policing. Media has brought attention to the possibility of predictive policing systems causing disparate impacts and... more
Empirical evidence is mounting that artificial intelligence applications driven by machine learning threaten to discriminate against legally protected groups. As ever more decisions are subjected to algorithmic processes, discrimination... more
Historically, impartiality has been imposed as the norm of professional journalism. Yet, be it conceived in terms of non-partisanship or balance, it offers a limited approach to the evaluation of the quality of news. This article revises... more
This essay offers a comprehensive discussion of the law of cohabitation. The reader is presented with a detailed history of the social change that took place in society that allowed for the recognition and acceptance of cohabiting... more
Slides for our talk given at Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) 2021, December 16, Austin, TX
One of the most significant developments in economics over the last decades has been the growth of behavioral economics. It is not a unified theory, but rather a collection of ideas in opposition to the traditional economics (so called... more
Students’ grades are altered for a variety of reasons in educational systems worldwide. While there has been considerable research on teachers’ grading practices, very little is known about the circumstances and reasons for grade... more
In the secret courts of men's hearts, justice and fairness are morphing beasts whose fangs deface a different person each time. Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the conflicting notions of justice and fairness were applied... more
Although fairness in machine learning is a fairly nascent field, its relevance to daily life is immensely understated. Seeing as the future of everything from criminal justice to credit scoring to shopping lists will be dictated by the... more
RIASSUNTO Nel testo della Convenzione Onu sui Diritti delle persone con disabilità (2007) l'espressione "accomodamento ra-gionevole" è decisiva. Se lo scopo è quello di promuovere «il pieno e uguale godimento di tutti i diritti umani e di... more
In this review, we present some ethical imperatives observed in this pandemic from a data ethics perspective. Our exposition connects recurrent ethical problems in the discipline, such as, privacy, surveillance, transparency,... more