Eclectic Distributional Ethics
John Roemer
Yale School of Management Working Papers from Yale School of Management
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)
Date: 2004-07-28
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