- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Measurement of Utility and Arrow’s Theorem
- The Measurability and Comparability of Utility
- The Arrow Impossibility Theorem
- Reformulation of the Impossibility Theorem with Utility Functions
- The Connection between Arrovian Social Choice and Distributive Justice
- Social Choice on Economic Environments
- Conclusion
- Axiomatic Bargaining Theory
- Justice as Rational Prudence
- The Nash Bargaining Solution
- Other Axiomatizations of the Nash Solution
- The Kalai-Smorodinsky and Egalitarian Solutions
- A Criticism from the Economic Point of View
- Conclusion
- Axiomatic Mechanism Theory on Economic Environments
- Introduction
- The Domain of Economic Environments
- Axioms and Theorems on Economic Environments
- Proofs of Theorems
- Naming Utility and Goods
- Conclusion
- Utilitarianism
- Introduction
- Maskin’s Theorem
- The Representation Theorems of Harsanyi and Myerson
- Utilitarianism from behind the Veil of Ignorance
- An Implication for the Interpretation of Individual Optimization under Uncertainty
- Optimal Population Size
- Conclusion
- Primary Goods, Fundamental Preferences, and Functionings
- Countering Utilitarianism
- Primary Goods, Welfare, and Equality
- Rawls’s Arguments for Maximin (the Difference Principle)
- The Cohen Criticism
- Kolm’s Fundamental Preferences
- Functionings and Capability
- Equality of Functionings or Primary Goods: An Alternative Approach
- Conclusion
- Neo-Lockeanism and Self-Ownership
- Nozick’s Theory of Distributive Justice
- Challenges to Nozick
- Joint Ownership of the External World
- Generalizations of Locke on Economic Environments
- Implementation
- The Morality of Self-Ownership
- Conclusion
- Equality of Welfare versus Equality of Resources
- Introduction
- Dworkin on Equality of Welfare
- Countering Dworkin’s Central Argument against Equality of Welfare
- Dworkin’s Definition of Equality of Resources
- An Axiomatic Approach to Equality of Resources
- Conclusion
- Equality of Opportunity for Welfare
- Relocating Dworkin’s Cut, 1
- Relocating Dworkin’s Cut, 2
- Equality of Opportunity: An Example
- Equality of Opportunity: A Formalization
- A Discrete Formulation of Equality of Opportunity
- Examples of the EOp Mechanism
- Related Approaches to Equality of Opportunity
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Appendix: Envy-Free Allocations
- References
- Index
Theories of Distributive Justice
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