On the meaning of non-welfarism in Kolm's ELIE model of income redistribution
Jean-Sébastien Gharbi and
Yves Meinard
Journal of Economic Methodology, 2015, vol. 22, issue 3, 335-353
Abstract:
Welfarism, a position which for a long time enjoyed a hegemonic status in the field of normative economics, holds that the sole ethically relevant information for assessing social states of affairs pertains to individual utilities. Serge-Christophe Kolm presents the Equal-Labour Income Equalization (ELIE) model very explicitly and repeatedly as breaking with the still dominant tradition of welfarism. This paper explores the meaning of this distancing from welfarism found in the ELIE model. After having provided conceptual clarifications concerning both ELIE and welfarism, we discuss various opposing aspects of this model of income redistribution to welfarism. We show that the refusal of welfarism by the ELIE model does not depend mainly on its axiomatic features, but on its deontological perspective.
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/1350178X.2015.1071504
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