Binmore, K. (2009) Interpersonal comparison in egalitarian societies. (ELSE Working Papers 333). ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution: London, UK.
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Abstract
When judging what is fair, how do we decide how much weight to assign to the conflicting interests of different classes of people? This subject has received some attention in a utilitarian context, but has been largely neglected in the case of egalitarian societies of the kind studied by John Rawls. My Game Theory and the Social Contract considers the problem for a toy society with only two citizens. This paper examines the theoretical difficulties in extending the discussion to societies with more than two citizens.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Interpersonal comparison in egalitarian societies |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://else.econ.ucl.ac.uk/newweb/papers.php |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of Arts and Social Sciences > Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences > Economics |
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