86 Priority, Solidarity and Egalitarianism
- Youngsub Chun, Inkee Lee, Biung-Ghi Ju
- no.86.pdf
Abstract
The priority view (Par t 1997) demands that bene ting people
should matter more the worse o these people are in absolute terms
of their well-being. In the model of allocating resources based on in-
dividual capabilities (output functions), this view is well represented
by disability monotonicity that requires no reduction in the amount of
resources allocated to an agent after she becomes more disabled. We
provide alternative axiomatic characterizations of the extended egal-
itarian rules (Moreno-Ternero and Roemer 2006) on the basis of dis-
ability monotonicity and agreement (when there is a change in agents
capabilities or total resources, all agents who remain unchanged should
be in uenced in the same direction: all unchanged agents get more or
all get less or all get the same amount as before).
Keywords: priority, solidarity, egalitarianism, agreement, disability monotonicity
JEL classification: D63, D71