Fleurbaey, Marc (2007) Social choice and the indexing dilemma. Social Choice and Welfare, 29 (4). 633-648 . ISSN 1432-217X
Abstract
This paper distinguishes an index ordering and a social ordering function as a simple way to formalize the indexing problem in the social choice framework. Two main conclusions are derived. First, the alleged dilemma between welfarism and perfectionism is shown to involve a third possibility, exemplified by the fairness approach to social choice. Second, the idea that an individual is better off than another whenever he has more (goods, functionings, etc.) in all dimensions, which is known to enter in conflict with the Pareto principle, can be partly salvaged by adopting the fairness approach.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://link.springer.com/journal/355 |
| Additional Information: | © 2007 Springer-Verlag |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Aug 2013 12:59 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/51468/ |
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