Interpersonal comparison in egalitarian societies

Ken Binmore

European Journal of Political Economy, 2010, vol. 26, issue 3, 294-301

Abstract: When judging what is fair, how do we decide how much weight to assign to the conflicting interests of different classes of people? This subject has received some attention in a utilitarian context, but has been largely neglected in the case of egalitarian societies of the kind studied by John Rawls. My Game Theory and the Social Contract considers the problem for a toy society with only two citizens. This paper examines the theoretical difficulties in extending the discussion to societies with more than two citizens.

Keywords: Egalitarianism; Interpersonal; comparison (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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