✦ LIBER ✦
Precedence, privilege, preferences, plus Pareto principle: Some examples on egalitarian ethics and economic efficiency
✍ Scribed by Bengt Arne Wickström
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 854 KB
- Volume
- 73
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0048-5829
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
It is demonstrated how economic theory of justice as fairness, Pareto improvements on situations involving equity, can be used to analyze the ethics contents of distributions of rights and privileges. The analysis makes use of the concept of a veil of ignorance to define a status quo. A property right to an ability or a privilege is interpreted as a transparency in the veil in respect to this ability or privilege. Three different examples are investigated, focusing on rights as collective goods, non-transferable abilities, and privileges as inherent rights.