Shared destinies and the measurement of social risk equity

Thibault Gajdos, John Weymark and Claudio Zoli
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Thibault Gajdos: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The evaluation of social risk equity for alternative probability distributions over the potential sets of fatalities is analyzed axiomatically. Fishburn and Straffin [Equity considerations in public risks valuation, Operatons Research 37 (1999), 229-239] have identified a necessary and sufficient condition for two social risk distributions to be judged to be socially indifferent whenever their associated distributions of risk of death for individuals and for the number of fatalities are the same. It is argued that this approach does not permit society to exhibit any concern for the number of people an individual perishes with. A weakening of the Fishburn-Straffin condition that is compatible with a concern for shared destinies is proposed.

Keywords: Evaluation du risque social; équité sociale face au risque; risque collectif; communauté de destin; Social risk evaluation; social risk equity; public risk; shared destinies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-10
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