Eclectic distributional ethics

Politics, Philosophy & Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 267-281

  Roemer, John E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

distributive justice; maximin; priority; sufficiency; utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947696359     PISSN: 1470594X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470594X04046238     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. For example, in J.E. Roemer, Theories of Distributive Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996); J.E. Roemer, Equality of Opportunity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
2. Larry S. Temkin, Inequality (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
3. Derek Parfit, ‘Equality and Priority’, Ratio 10 (1997): 202-21.
4. Weakly preferred means preferred or indifferent.
5. The leximin ethic is a refinement of maximin. According to leximin (2,4) is strictly preferred to (2,3), whereas according to maximin, these two states are socially indifferent.
6. All leximin indifference ‘curves’ consist of such pairs of points, except the points of the form (a,a), which are indifference curves by themselves.
7. This is itself a controversial assertion. Strict egalitarians (such as Temkin, Inequality) would dispute Axioms 3a and 3b.
8. Harry Frankfurt, ‘Equality as a Moral Ideal’, Ethics 98 (1987): 21-43.