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Disparate goods and Rawls' difference principle: A social choice theoretic treatment

dc.contributor.authorGibbard, Allan F.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-09-11T13:55:14Z
dc.date.available2006-09-11T13:55:14Z
dc.date.issued1979-09en_US
dc.identifier.citationGibbard, Allan; (1979). "Disparate goods and Rawls' difference principle: A social choice theoretic treatment." Theory and Decision 11(3): 267-288. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43843>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0040-5833en_US
dc.identifier.issn1573-7187en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43843
dc.description.abstractRawls' Difference Principle asserts that a basic economic structure is just if it makes the worst off people as well off as is feasible. How well off someone is is to be measured by an ‘index’ of ‘primary social goods’. It is this index that gives content to the principle, and Rawls gives no adequate directions for constructing it. In this essay a version of the difference principle is proposed that fits much of what Rawls says, but that makes use of no index. Instead of invoking an index of primary social goods, the principle formulated here invokes a partial ordering of prospects for opportunities.en_US
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherKluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Mediaen_US
dc.subject.otherEconomics/Management Science, Generalen_US
dc.subject.otherOperation Research/Decision Theoryen_US
dc.subject.otherMethodology of the Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.otherEconomics / Management Scienceen_US
dc.titleDisparate goods and Rawls' difference principle: A social choice theoretic treatmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPhilosophyen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelStatistics and Numeric Dataen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelSocial Sciences (General)en_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHumanitiesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelScienceen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michigan, USAen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43843/1/11238_2004_Article_BF00126381.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00126381en_US
dc.identifier.sourceTheory and Decisionen_US
dc.owningcollnameInterdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed


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