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Welfare Egalitarianism in Non-Rival Environments

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Francois Maniquet () (Department of Economics, Universite catholique de Louvain)
Yves Sprumont

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We study equity in economies where a set of agents commonly own a technology producing a non-rival good from their private contributions. A social ordering function associates to each economy a complete ranking of the allocations. We build social ordering functions satisfying the property that individual welfare levels exceeding a legitimate upper bound should be reduced. Combining that property with efficiency and robustness properties with respect to changes in the set of agents, we obtain a kind of welfare egalitarianism based on a constructed numerical representation of individual preferences.

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Paper provided by Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science in its series Economics Working Papers with number 0016.

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Date of creation: May 2002
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Publication status: Published in Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 120(2), February 2005, 155-74
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D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
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  2. Moulin, Herve, 1992. " All Sorry to Disagree: A General Principle for the Provision of Nonrival Goods," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 94(1), pages 37-51.
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  1. SPRUMONT, Yves & MANIQUET, François, 2006. "Sharing the Cost of a Public Good: an Incentive-Constrained Axiomatic Approach," Cahiers de recherche 2006-09, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Giacomo, VALETTA, 2007. "A fair solution to the compensation problem," Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques Working Paper 2007038, Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques. [Downloadable!]
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