A proposal to unify some concepts in the theory of fairness

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Corchón, LC; Iturbe-Ormaetxe, I
• 署名单位: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Universitat d'Alacant
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0531
• DOI: 10.1006/jeth.2000.2728
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 540-571
• 关键词: aspirations; aspiration functions; distributive justice; fairness; social choice correspondences

摘要

So far, the theory of distributive justice has tried to single out a unique criterion of justice, different people hold conflicting ideas about justice. We propose a procedure for representing these individual opinions by means of aspiration functions. We present three different ways of aggregating such opposing opinions into a socially acceptable judgement. Furthermore, we show that many well-known concepts are special cases of our approach. We study, under a restriction on the form of the aspiration functions, the conditions that are necessary and sufficient for a social choice correspondence to be generated from any of our concepts. (C) 2001 Academic Press.