A common ground for resource and welfare egalitarianism

Juan Moreno-Ternero and John Roemer

Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, vol. 75, issue 2, 832-841

Abstract: Resource egalitarianism and welfare egalitarianism are two focal conceptions of distributive justice. We show in this paper that they share a solid common ground. To do so, we analyze a simple model of resource allocation in which agentsʼ abilities (to transform the resource into an interpersonally comparable outcome) and starting points may differ. Both conceptions of egalitarianism are naturally modeled in this context as two allocation rules. The two rules are jointly characterized by the combination of three appealing axioms: no-domination, solidarity, and composition.

Keywords: Resource allocation; Egalitarianism; Welfare; No-domination; Solidarity; Composition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2012.03.005

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