The value of equality
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2001-09Metadata
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Abstract
Over the years, egalitarian philosophers have made some challenging claims
about the nature of egalitarianism. They have argued that the Rawlsian leximin
principle is not an egalitarian idea; that egalitarian reasoning should
make us reject the Pareto principle; that the numbers should not count within
an egalitarian framework; that egalitarianism should make us reject the property
of transitivity, that the Pigou-Dalton principle needs modification, and
that the intersection approach faces deep problems. In this paper, taking the
recent philosophical debate on equality versus priority as the starting point, I review these claims from the point of view of an economist.
Publisher
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of EconomicsSeries
Discussion paper2001:22