Fairness of allocations among groups of unknown others

Social Justice Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-61

  Johansson, Lars Olof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Difference aversion; Equality; Fairness; Inequality aversion; Resource allocations

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244373204     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-005-3392-4     Document Type: Article

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