Procedural cum Endstate Justice: An Implementation Viewpoint

Herve Moulin

No 97-17, Working Papers from Duke University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Means matter as well as ends. In the context of the microeconomic allocation of resources, the familiar statement corresponds to the duality of procedural versus endstate justice; the tension between these two approaches is highlighted by the strategic implementation approach. It is argued that the strong requirement of strategyproofness provides the only context where the two approaches coincide for strategyproof mechanisms, and only for those, the justice of the mechanism is equivalent to that of its endstate. The literature on strategyproof allocation mechanisms is briefly reviewed, and its recent revival is emphasized.

JEL-codes: D63 D70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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