A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism
A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism
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10.2011Verlag / herausgebende Einrichtung
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of BonnVerlagsort
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A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient in converting income into utility. However, when individuals are concerned about their income falling behind the incomes of others, the optimal income distribution under utilitarianism is equality of incomes.
Schlagwörter
Utilitarianism, Income equality, Social welfare maximization, Relative income
Klassifikation (DDC)
300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie 320 Politik 330 WirtschaftErstpublikation
https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/user_upload/zef_dp_156.pdfReihe, Nummer
ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; 156Stark, Oded; Kobus, Martyna; Jakubek, Marcin: A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism. Bonn: Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, 2011. In: ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy, 156.
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