The Pareto argument and inequality

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 196, 1999, Pages 353-368

  Shaw, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 2542530425     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9213.00147     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. G. Cohen, 'The Pareto Argument for Inequality', Social Philosophy and Policy, 12 (1995), pp. 160-85
2. J. Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Oxford UP, 1972, hereafter TJ), p. 62
3. Y. Ng, Welfare Economics: the Introduction and Development of Basic Concepts (New York: Wiley, 1980), p. 31
4. J. Griffin, Well-Being: Its Meaning, Measurement, and Moral Importance (Oxford UP, 1986), p. 147
5. D. Lyons, 'The Nature and Soundness of Contract and Coherence Arguments', in N. Daniels (ed.), Reading Rawls (Oxford: Blackwell, 1975), pp. 141-67, at p. 153
6. See my 'Rawls, the Lexical Difference Principle and Equality', The Philosophical Quarterly, 42 (1992), pp. 72-7
7. B. Barry, Theories of Justice, Vol. 1 (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989), pp. 229-30
8. See also TJ pp. 76-7
9. This position is often favoured by economists: see E.J. Mishan, Introduction to Normative Economics (Oxford UP, 1981), pp. 132-3
10. See, for example, George Davy Smith, 'Income Inequality and Mortality: Why are They Related?', British Medical Journal, 312 (1996), pp. 987-8
11. Daniel Hausman interprets (WPP) in this way in The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics (Cambridge UP, 1992), p. 66
12. L. Temkin, Inequality (Oxford UP, 1993), pp. 260, 273-6
13. see also his 'Weighing Goods: Some Questions and Comments', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 23 (1994), pp. 350-80
14. See J. Broome, Weighing Goods: Equality, Uncertainty and Time (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), ch 9
15. M. Fleming, 'A Cardinal Concept of Welfare', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 66 (1952), repr. in E.S. Phelps (ed.), Social Justice (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973), pp. 245-65, at p. 252
16. D. Parfit, 'Equality and Priority', Ratio, N.S.10 (1997), pp. 202-21
17. A. Moore and R. Crisp, 'Welfarism in Moral Theory', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 74 (1996), pp. 598-613. See pp. 611-12
18. R. Norman, 'The Social Basis of Equality', Ratio, N.S. 10 (1997), pp. 238-52. See p. 239