Public decisions with multiple criteria are complicated, however, by the necessity for public justification. An individual making a personal decision may rest content with it if he has first given due consideration to all relevant claims; the arbitrator in a wage dispute has the additional worry of satisfying the parties to the dispute, and perhaps the public at large, that his decision is reasonable. (a) The determination of earnings fixing.Most wages are settled, however, by collective negotiations ought to be met. For if they cannot agree, the parties may refer their as in the Speenhamland system, there are good social,

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Public decisions with multiple criteria are complicated, however, by the necessity for public justification. An individual making a personal decision may rest content with it if he has first given due consideration to all relevant claims; the arbitrator in a wage dispute has the additional worry of satisfying the parties to the dispute, and perhaps the public at large, that his decision is reasonable. (a) The determination of earnings fixing.Most wages are settled, however, by collective negotiations ought to be met. For if they cannot agree, the parties may refer their as in the Speenhamland system, there are good social,

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Public decisions with multiple criteria are complicated, however, by the necessity for public justification. An individual making a personal decision may rest content with it if he has first given due consideration to all relevant claims; the arbitrator in a wage dispute has the additional worry of satisfying the parties to the dispute, and perhaps the public at large, that his decision is reasonable. (a) The determination of earnings fixing.Most wages are settled, however, by collective negotiations ought to be met. For if they cannot agree, the parties may refer their as in the Speenhamland system, there are good social,

ABSTRACT

The industrial arbitrator's problems are more nearly paralleled by those which face the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whenever he proposes to modify taxes. If he has a budget surplus to dispose of, for example, he can choose whether to allocate it according to need or desert. He may decide to give relief to the family man; or he may seek to increase incentives by reducing the higher rates of income tax, thus widening net differentials between higher and lower paid workers. Decisions of this sort are always highly controversial, precisely because different people stress different criteria, some giving priority to need, others to desert.