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FAIR BIAS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2006

UZI SEGAL
UZI SEGAL
Affiliation:
Boston College
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Abstract

This paper takes a simple, informal suggestion by Broome and another more explicit suggestion by Kamm for how to deal with asymmetric claims and shows how they can be interpreted to be consistent with two different social welfare functions: Sum-of-square-roots of individual utilities, and product of utilities. These functions are then used to analyze more complicated situations but I show that the first yields more intuitive results, and a better compromise of efficiency and justice, than the other.

Type
Essay
Information
Economics & Philosophy , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , July 2006 , pp. 213 - 229
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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