Equitable opportunities: An axiomatic approach
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Kranich, L
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-0531
DOI：
10.1006/jeth.1996.0112
发表日期：
1996
页码：
131-147
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摘要：
We propose an axiomatic approach to ranking lists of opportunity sets of the form O = (O-1, ..., O-n) on the basis of fairness. First, we consider two agents each of whom faces a finite set of opportunities. To demonstrate the tractability of our approach, we axiomatically characterize the cardinality difference relation according to which O is more equitable than O' if the difference between the cardinalities of the sets in O is less than the difference in O'. We then generalize the analysis to include an arbitrary number of agents, and we characterize the class of relations that admit of a linear representation. (C) 1996 Academic Press, Inc.