Eclectic Distributional Ethics

John Roemer

No 1408, Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers from Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University

Abstract: Utilitarians, egalitarians, prioritarians, and sufficientarians each provide examples of situations demonstrating, often compellingly, that a sensible ethical observer must adopt their view and reject the others. We argue, to the contrary, that an attractive ethic is eclectic, in the sense of coinciding with these apparently different views in different regions of the space of social states.

Keywords: Distributive justice; Ethics; Axiomatic social choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2003-03
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Published in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (2004), 3(3): 267-281

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