Axiomatizing Political Philosophy of Distributive Justice: Equivalence of No-envy and Egalitarian-equivalence with Welfare-egalitarianism∗†
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We analyze the political philosophy question of what kind of welfare differentials are allowed if we respect private ownership rights over self and public ownership of the external world. We consider cases where agents have equal rights over the publicly owned external world resources but are individually responsible for their preferences. We discuss that these ownership rights are naturally reflected by the two fundamental axioms of fairness: no-envy and egalitarianequivalence. We show that these axioms characterize the welfare-egalitarian mechanisms (that are decision-effi cient and incentive compatible) in a model of allocating discrete resources when money transfers are possible. We also relate no-envy and egalitarian-equivalence to the “equality of what” debate and build a link between resource and opportunity egalitarianism, and welfareegalitarianism JEL Classifications: C79, D61, D63.
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