Distributed mechanisms for allocating indivisible goods are mechanisms lacking central control, in which agents can locally agree on deals to exchange some of the goods in their possession. We study convergence properties for such distributed mechanisms when used as fair division procedures. Specifically, we identify sets of assumptions under which any sequence of deals meeting certain conditio...

Many experiments have demonstrated that people are willing to incur cost to punish norm violators even when they are not directly harmed by the violation. Such altruistic third-party punishment is often considered an evolutionary underpinning of large-scale human cooperation. However, some scholars argue that previously demonstrated altruistic third-party punishment against fairness-norm violat...

Are demands for equality motivated by envy? Nietzsche, Freud, Hayek, and Nozick all thought so. Call this the Envy Objection. For egalitarians, Objection is meant to sting. Many egalitarians have tried evade But should be worried about In article, I argue that stop worrying learn love envy. persistent unwillingness embrace rooted in a common misunderstanding of nature charge, what it reveals, c...

Speakers of many languages tend to use pairs words such as emotion/feeling or jealousy/envy interchangeably. This paper explores the differences in way which emotional states jealousy and envy are understood (in Croa­tian language ljubomora zavist) influence culture on expression these states. First, we establish cultural framework that significantly shapes experience states, summarize cognitiv...