Envy-Freeness and Distributive Justice

By C. Arnsperger. 1994

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On formalizing fairness in prediction with machine learning (2017, background): “In the social sciences literature, the above notion corresponds to envy-freeness (3).”
The Combinatorial Assignment Problem: Approximate Competitive Equilibrium from Equal Incomes (2010, background): “So the allocation satis es the maximin-share guarantee.(11) The allocation also satis es envy bounded by a single good: the agent who gets the small diamond may envy the agent who gets the big diamond, but his envy is bounded by a single good, the big diamond.”
Fair Allocation Rules (2011, background): “Earlier surveys covering some of the same ground as the present one are Thomson and Varian (1985), Young (1985), Arnsperger (1994), and Moulin and Thomson (1997).”
A normative ethical framework in climate change (2007, background): “... the theoretical first-best heaven and considering the trading of endowments per se, I believe that the envy-freeness criterion is a way to choose between different Pareto-optima and identify allocations that are at once efficient and equitable: “To a significant extent, envy-freeness has become ”