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Distributive Justice and Inequality

A Selection of Papers Given at a Conference, Berlin, May 1986

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Wulf Gaertner

    1. Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

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  2. Prasanta K. Pattanaik

    1. Department of Economics, Faculty of Commerce and Social Science, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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Table of contents (11 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Lorenz Curves for Various Processes: A Pluralistic Approach to Equity

    • P. Suppes
    Pages 1-13

  3. Lives and Well-Being

    • P. Dasgupta
    Pages 15-38

  4. Consequentialist Demographic Norms and Parenting Rights

    • P. J. Hammond
    Pages 39-57

  5. Measurement of Inequality: An Attempt at Unification and Generalization

    • U. Ebert
    Pages 59-81

  6. On a Class of Inequality Measures

    • W. Eichhorn
    Pages 83-89

  7. Poverty Orderings and Welfare Dominance

    • J. E. Foster, A. F. Shorrocks
    Pages 91-110

  8. Income Inequality, Welfare and Poverty in a Developing Economy with Applications to Sri Lanka

    • N. Kakwani
    Pages 111-134

  9. Distributional Implications of Equal Sacrifice Rules

    • W. Buchholz, W. F. Richter, J. Schwaiger
    Pages 135-138

  10. A Note on Minimally Progressive Taxation and Absolute Income Inequality

    • P. Moyes
    Pages 139-146

  11. Progressive Taxation and Redistributive Taxation: Different Labels for the Same Product?

    • A. Pfingsten
    Pages 147-158

  12. Characterizing the Nash Bargaining Solution Without Pareto-Optimality

    • T. Lensberg, W. Thomson
    Pages 159-171

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 173-173
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About this book

From May 20 to May 24, 1986 a conference on distributive justice and in­ equality was held at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (Wis­ senschaftskolleg zu Berlin). More than thirty scholars participated in this conference. The topics of the presentations ranged from ethics, welfare economics and social choice theory to characterizations of inequality meas­ ures and redistributive taxation schemes. This book contains a selection of the papers given at the conference. This collection of articles also appeared as issues 2 and 3 of volume 5 of Social Choice and Welfare. In the first paper P. Suppes argues for a pluralistic concept of equity. For too long the emphasis has been on income distribution but there are other characteristics which are important when one talks about equity. Suppes suggests that it would be desirable to have Lorenz curves for a variety of fea­ tures of societies, such as education, health and housing. P. Dasgupta studies the quality of lives in terms of an index of living stand­ ards. One has to distinguish between "same number choices" (the number of lives is given) and "different numbers choices" (problem of optimum popUlation). The author argues that in the latter case the anonymity (or sym­ metry) axiom cannot be readily defended. Once it is dropped, however, an incoherence in the moral ordering of possible worlds arises. The moral basis for different numbers choices becomes generation-dependent, an overall moral ordering of possible worlds no longer exists.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

    Wulf Gaertner

  • Department of Economics, Faculty of Commerce and Social Science, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    Prasanta K. Pattanaik

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Distributive Justice and Inequality

  • Book Subtitle: A Selection of Papers Given at a Conference, Berlin, May 1986

  • Editors: Wulf Gaertner, Prasanta K. Pattanaik

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73816-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-73818-0Published: 27 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-73816-6Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 171

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Originally published in: "Social Choice and Welfare", Volume 5, Nos. 2 and 3, 1988

  • Topics: Economics, general, Political Philosophy, Modern Philosophy

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