Impartiality, Priority, and Solidarity in the Theory of Justice.

The ethic of priority is a compromise between the extremely compensatory ethic of outcome equality and the needs-blind ethic of resource equality. We propose an axiom of priority and characterize resource-allocation rules that are impartial, prioritarian, and solidaristic. They comprise a class of r...

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Published in:	Econometrica Vol. 74; no. 5; pp. 1419 - 1428
Main Authors:	Moreno-Ternero, Juan D., Roemer, John E.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell September 2006
Subjects:	Resource allocation > Mathematical models Solidarity Fairness Equality
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