Notions of fairness versus the Pareto principle
Subtitle: on the role of logical consistency
By: Louis Kaplow, Steven Shavell
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 302; Discussion paper (John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business) -- no. 302
Publisher: Harvard Law School
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Social justice; Fairness; Distributive justice; Law; Philosophy
Description: A response to Howard Chang's article, A liberal theory of social welfare : fairness, utility, and the Pareto principle. (Yale Law Journal, vol. 110, no. 2 (Nov. 2000)).
Notes: Discussion papers published since September 1997 are available for downloading free-of-charge from the Olin Center web site.

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