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Title
Liberal Egalitarianism and the Harm Principle
Creator
Creator Name
Lombardi, Michele Lombardi, Michele
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
University of Warwick
Creator Name
Veneziani, Roberto Veneziani, Roberto
Editor
Contributor Name
社会科学の高度統計・実証分析拠点構築 = Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences
Key Word
Difference principle
leximin
weak harm principle
infinite utility streams
JEL
D63
D70
Q01
Abstract
This paper analyses Rawls's celebrated difference principle, and its lexicographic extension, in societies with a finite and an infinite number of agents. A unified framework of analysis is set up, which allows one to characterise Rawlsian egalitarian principles by means of a weaker version of a new axiom - the Harm Principle - recently proposed by [13]. This is quite surprising, because the Harm principle is meant to capture a liberal requirement of noninterference and it incorporates no obvious egalitarian content. A set of new characterisations of the maximin and of its lexicographic refinement are derived, including in the intergenerational context with an infinite number of agents.
Description
Date: July 16, 2009.
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2009-07
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
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Related Title
Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series ; No. 78
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  http://gcoe.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/english/index.html
Number of Pages
27
Sponsorship
グローバルCOEプログラム = Global COE Program
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Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/17524