Distributing fairly

This chapter examines various conditions that influence a fair distribution of resources. The natural policy that offered itself as a salient solution and passed the no-envy test and therefore most of the other fairness requirements, is not available in other cases. This problem is due to a basic conflict between the compensation principle and the liberal reward principle in cases when responsibility characteristics interfere with the relative importance of circumstances and transfers in the determination of well-being. The chapter also considers the trade-off between compensation and neutrality, along with the Egalitarian-Equivalence and Conditional Equality solutions.