A New Criterion of Fairness
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Chapter 2 begins with envy-freeness as a possible criterion of fairness and then refines it. A distribution is envy-free when no one prefers someone else’s bundle of goods to her own. Yet eliminating envy is not always possible, and minimizing envy when it cannot be eliminated is not always fair. In response to these problems, this chapter distinguishes two types of envy: personal envy depends on the assignment of bundles; impersonal envy does not. The chapter then argues that the two types of envy are not normatively equivalent: claims based on impersonal envy but not personal envy satisfy the requirement of mutual justifiability. The upshot is a new criterion of fairness: impersonal envy-freeness.
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