Egalitarianism Against the Veil of Ignorance
@article{Roemer2001EgalitarianismAT, title={Egalitarianism Against the Veil of Ignorance}, author={John E. Roemer}, journal={Yale: Cowles Foundation Working Papers}, year={2001} }
J. Rawls and R. Dworkin have each used veils of ignorance to justify equality (Rawls) or to compute what equality entails (Dworkin). J. Harsanyi has also derived a distributive ethic from a veil of ignorance argument, which, although not egalitarian, is believed by Harsanyi to be not excessively inegalitarian. Harsanyi's analysis does not determine a unique social choice function, but rather a family of such functions. Here, by appending more information to Harsanyi's environment, and an Axiom…
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