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- Title
Dworkin's Paradox.
- Authors
Ki Baek, Seung; Choi, Jung-Kyoo; Jun Kim, Beom
- Abstract
How to distribute welfare in a society is a key issue in the subject of distributional justice, which is deeply involved with notions of fairness. Following a thought experiment by Dworkin, this work considers a society of individuals with different preferences on the welfare distribution and an official to mediate the coordination among them. Based on a simple assumption that an individual's welfare is proportional to how her preference is fulfilled by the actual distribution, we show that an egalitarian preference is a strict Nash equilibrium and can be favorable even in certain inhomogeneous situations. These suggest how communication can encourage and secure a notion of fairness.
- Subjects
INCOME inequality; NASH equilibrium; DECISION theory; MATHEMATICAL optimization; DECISION making
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0038529