A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism

dc.contributor.author	Stark, Oded
dc.contributor.author	Kobus, Martyna
dc.contributor.author	Jakubek, Marcin
dc.date.accessioned	2024-09-24T07:53:22Z
dc.date.available	2024-09-24T07:53:22Z
dc.date.issued	10.2011
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/12248
dc.description.abstract	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.	de
dc.format.extent	14
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; 156
dc.rights	In Copyright
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subject	Utilitarianism
dc.subject	Income equality
dc.subject	Social welfare maximization
dc.subject	Relative income
dc.subject.ddc	300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
dc.subject.ddc	320 Politik
dc.subject.ddc	330 Wirtschaft
dc.title	A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism
dc.type	Arbeitspapier
dc.publisher.name	Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
dc.publisher.location	Bonn
dc.rights.accessRights	openAccess
dc.relation.eissn	1436-9931
dc.relation.url	https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/user_upload/zef_dp_156.pdf
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