MEASURING A NEGLECTED TYPE OF LOTTERY UNFAIRNESS

Gerard Vong

Economics and Philosophy, 2018, vol. 34, issue 1, 67-86

Abstract: When it is most fair for a claimant to receive a particular chance of benefiting (e.g. 50%) but they instead receive a different chance of benefiting (e.g. 40%), this lower chance is not ideally fair. I specify the often-overlooked type of individual unfairness evident in differences of this kind and argue for four intuitively supported criteria that a measure of this unfairness must meet. I defend the Asymmetrical Proportional View, which meets these criteria and is a measure of how individually unfair any particular difference of this kind is. Finally I conclude with the View's implications for theories of distributive fairness.

Date: 2018
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