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A proposal to unify some concepts in the theory of fairness

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10016/3935
ISSN: 0022-0531
DOI: 10.1006/jeth.2000.2728
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So far, the theory of distributive justice has tried to single out a unique criterion of justice. However, different people hold conflicting ideas about justice. We propose a procedure for representing these individual opinions by means of aspiration functions. We present three different ways of aggregating such opposing opinions into a socially acceptable judgement. Furthermore, we show that many well-known concepts are special cases of our approach. We study, under a restriction on the form of the aspiration functions, the conditions that are necessary and sufficient for a social choice correspondence to be generated from any of our concepts.
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aspirations, aspiration functions, distributive justice, fairness, social choice correspondences
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Journal of Economic Theory. 2001, vol. 101, nº 2, p. 540-571
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