The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in school closures around the world, leaving lasting negative impacts on many children. Given that such are justified public health measures, this raises question of compensating children for closures. In article I address compensation from perspective a popular theory justice: luck egalitarianism. doing so, examine problem with applying egalitarianism to children...

We consider a committee of representatives that makes dichotomous choices (acceptance/rejection) by vote. Given the size of each group represented, what is the most adequate voting rule for the committee? We provide answers based on each of the two principles commonly used to make normative assessments in di¤erent contexts: egalitarianism and utilitarianism. To that end, we introduce utilities ...

We study equity in economies where a set of agents commonly own a technology producing a non-rival good from their private contributions. A social ordering function associates to each economy a complete ranking of the allocations. We build social ordering functions satisfying the property that individual welfare levels exceeding a legitimate upper bound should be reduced. Combining that propert...

This paper analyses Rawls’s celebrated di¤erence principle, and its lexicographic extension, in societies with a …nite and an in…nite number of agents. A uni…ed framework of analysis is set up, which allows one to characterise Rawlsian egalitarian principles by means of a weaker version of a new axiom the Harm Principle recently proposed by [13]. This is quite surprising, because the Harm princ...

Changes in the nature of marriage have spurred a debate about the consequences of shifts to more egalitarian relationships, and media interest in the debate has crystallized around claims that men who participate in housework get more sex. However, little systematic or representative research supports the claim that women, in essence, exchange sex for men's participation in housework. Although ...

Abstract According to relational egalitarians, equality is not primarily about the distribution of some good but people relating one another as equals. However, compared with other theorists in political philosophy – including egalitarians have said relatively little on what role personal responsibility should play their theories. For example, compatible responsibility? Should economic distribu...