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Distributive Justice and Inequality - A Selection of Papers Given at a Conference, Berlin, May 1986 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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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."
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