Disparate goods and Rawls' difference principle: A social choice theoretic treatment
dc.contributor.author | Gibbard, Allan F. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T13:55:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T13:55:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1979-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Gibbard, 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.issn | 0040-5833 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-7187 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43843 | |
dc.description.abstract | Rawls' 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.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Economics/Management Science, General | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Operation Research/Decision Theory | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Methodology of the Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Economics / Management Science | en_US |
dc.title | Disparate goods and Rawls' difference principle: A social choice theoretic treatment | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Statistics and Numeric Data | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Sciences (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43843/1/11238_2004_Article_BF00126381.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00126381 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Theory and Decision | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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