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dc.contributor.authorTungodden, Bertil
dc.date.accessioned2006-08-10T11:03:12Z
dc.date.available2006-08-10T11:03:12Z
dc.date.issued2001-09
dc.identifier.issn0804-6824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/163022
dc.description.abstractOver 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.en
dc.format.extent291952 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherNorwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscussion paperen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2001:22en
dc.subjectegalitarianismen
dc.subjectprioritarianismen
dc.subjectleximinen
dc.subjectPigou-Dalton principleen
dc.subjectnon-aggregationen
dc.subjectseparabilityen
dc.subjecttransitivityen
dc.titleThe value of equalityen
dc.typeWorking paperen


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