Allocation rules for land division

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chambers, CP
• 署名单位: California Institute of Technology
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0531
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2004.04.008
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 236-258
• 关键词: land division; Utilitarianism; division independence

摘要

This paper studies the classical land division problem formalized by Steinhaus (Econometrica 16 (1948) 101-104) in a multi-profile context. We propose a notion of an allocation rule for this setting. We discuss several examples of rules and properties they may satisfy. Central among these properties is division independence: a parcel may be partitioned into smaller parcels, these smaller parcels allocated according to the rule, leaving a recommended allocation for the original parcel. In conjunction with two other normative properties, division independence is shown to imply the principle of utilitarianism. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.