Equality of When

By G. Galanis, Roberto Veneziani. 2017

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This paper analyses the temporal unit of egalitarian concern. In the intertemporal context, the differences between egalitarian views can be appreciated not only in inequality analysis but also as regards the ideal egalitarian distribution to be established. In this paper, three intergenerational egalitarian principles (Complete Lives Egalitarianism, Corresponding Segments Egalitarianism and Simultaneous Segments Egalitarianism) are analysed and CSE is argued to be the appropriate egalitarian benchmark. The relations between the three principles and other moral ideals, namely maximin and utilitarianism, are also analysed. It is proved that CLE and CSE are compatible with a concern for the worst off and, partially, with a utilitarian concern, while the adoption of SSE implies a worse trade-off between egalitarianism and the other moral ideals.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Individuals, interactions and institutions: How economic inequality affects organizations (2015, background): “Therefore, a relevant research question that follows is what the optimal level of inequality in a social collective is that motivates its members to achieve their capability (Sen, 1980).”
• The Algorithmic Leviathan: Arbitrariness, Fairness, and Opportunity in Algorithmic Decision Making Systems (2021, background): “The problem could be that she is unable to develop an adequate range of capacities (Sen 1980, 1993; Nussbaum 2011), has insufficient opportunity for genuine freedom or autonomy (Raz 1988), is among the least well-off in ways that require remediation (Rawls 1971), or is consistently excluded from…”
• Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (2016, background): “2 In a separate challenge to the Rawlsian framework, Sen (1980) contended that Rawls was a “fetishist” in focusing on primary goods.”
• Distributive justice and equity in transportation (2016, background): “Another important criticism of Rawls’ theory comes from Amartya Sen who endorses Rawls’ overall scheme, but proposes that the focus of the difference principle should shift from primary goods to human capabilities (Sen, 1979, 2005, 2009).”
• Two types of ‘enough’: sufficiency as minimum and maximum (2016, background): “This question has been debated extensively within the egalitarian debate among justice theorists in the 1980s (e.g. Sen 1979, Dworkin 1981a, 1981b, Cohen 1989).”