Sufficientarianism

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Alcantud, Jose Carlos R.; Mariotti, Marco; Veneziani, Roberto
• 署名单位: University of Salamanca; University of London; Queen Mary University London; Deakin University
• 刊物名称: THEORETICAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1933-6837
• DOI: 10.3982/TE4232
• 发表日期: 2022-11-01
• 页码: 1529-1557
• 关键词: Sufficientarianism; distributive justice; D63; D70

摘要

Sufficientarianism is a prominent approach to distributive justice in political philosophy and in policy analyses. However, it is virtually absent from the formal normative economics literature. We analyze sufficientarianism axiomatically in the context of the allocation of 0-1 normalized well-being in society. We present three characterizations of the core sufficientarian criterion, which counts the number of agents who attain a good enough level of well-being. The main characterization captures the hybrid nature of the criterion, which embodies at the same time a threshold around which the worst off in society is prioritized, and an indifference to equality in other regions. The other two characterizations relate sufficientarianism, respectively, to a liberal principle of noninterference and to a classic neutrality property.