http://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/2009/01/30/does-fairness-translate-an-economist-and-a-linguist-delve-into-the-cross-cultural-variation-of-what-we-consider-fair/ Beyond Words explores our experiences with language, culture, and the world through our day-to-day interactions. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:20:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/2009/01/30/does-fairness-translate-an-economist-and-a-linguist-delve-into-the-cross-cultural-variation-of-what-we-consider-fair/comment-page-1/#comment-487 Julia Lynch Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:18:32 +0000 http://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/?p=1474#comment-487 I've been studying public beliefs about fairness in the US since 2003, looking at differences in how people evaluate inequalities in health and health care, earnings, and education. The language that people use to talk about fairness is a key part of my research, which is based mainly on survey experiments and in-depth interviews. I'm a comparativist by training, and I don't buy for a minute that fairness is an untranslatable concept. What I do think is that beliefs about what's fair very considerably depending on what kinds of goods are in question, who benefits and who suffers from a given distribution, and who is doing the judging. www.polisci.upenn.edu/~jflynch/ I’ve been studying public beliefs about fairness in the US since 2003, looking at differences in how people evaluate inequalities in health and health care, earnings, and education. The language that people use to talk about fairness is a key part of my research, which is based mainly on survey experiments and in-depth interviews. I’m a comparativist by training, and I don’t buy for a minute that fairness is an untranslatable concept. What I do think is that beliefs about what’s fair very considerably depending on what kinds of goods are in question, who benefits and who suffers from a given distribution, and who is doing the judging.
http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/~jflynch/

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