Fair social orderings

M. Fleurbaey; F. Maniquet

doi:10.1007/s00199-006-0132-4

Fair social orderings

M. Fleurbaey, F. Maniquet

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In a model of private good allocation, we construct social orderings which depend only on ordinal non-comparable information about individual preferences. In order to avoid Arrovian-type impossibilities, we let those social preferences take account of the shape of individual indifference curves. This allows us to introduce equity and cross-economy robustness properties, inspired by the theory of fair allocation. Combining such properties, we characterize two families of fair social orderings.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	25-45
Number of pages	21
Journal	Economic Theory
Volume	34
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-006-0132-4
State	Published - Jan 2008
Externally published	Yes

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Economics and Econometrics

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Fairness
Social orderings

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