Impartiality, priority, and solidarity in the theory of justice

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Moreno-Ternero, Juan D.; Roemer, John E.
• 署名单位: Universidad de Malaga; Universite Catholique Louvain; Yale University; Yale University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMETRICA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0012-9682
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00710.x
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 1419-1427
• 关键词: Egalitarianism

摘要

The ethic of priority is a compromise between the extremely compensatory ethic of outcome equality and the needs-blind ethic of resource equality. We propose an axiom of priority and characterize resource-allocation rules that are impartial, prioritarian, and solidaristic. They comprise a class of rules that equalize across individuals some index of outcome and resources. Consequently, we provide an ethical rationalization for the many applications in which such indices have been used (e.g., the human development index, the index of primary goods, etc.).