Popularizing Fairness: Group Fairness and Individual Welfare

Marc Fleurbaey : Fairness , Responsibility , and Welfare

Consider the following problem: There are four individuals differing with respect to two characteristics. First, Anne and Bob received a low bequest (1), while Ruth and Shmuel received a high bequest (3). Second, Anne and Ruth are females and as such show more dedication (3) than Bob and Shmuel (1) to the painstaking task of transforming money into utility. Assume that all actors have the follo...

Group Fairness in Multiwinner Voting

We study multiwinner voting problems when there is an additional requirement that the selected committee should be fair with respect to attributes such as gender, ethnicity, or political parties. Every setting of an attribute gives rise to a group, and the goal is to ensure that each group is neither over nor under represented in the selected committee. Prior work has largely focused on designi...

Fairness, Computable Fairness, and Randomness

Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy

All societies face the need to make judgments about what interventions (both public health and personal medical) to provide to their populations under reasonable resource constraints. Their decisions should be informed by good evidence and arguments from health technology assessment (HTA). But if HTA restricts itself to evaluations of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness, it risks being vie...

Correction: Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy