Proportional redistribution
Ricardo Martinez, Juan D. Moreno-Ternero
TL;DR
This paper formalizes the concept of proportional redistribution, balancing fairness and efficiency, and offers an ethical justification rooted in Aristotelian proportionality within needs-based redistribution models.
Contribution
It introduces a formal axiomatic characterization of proportional redistribution, providing a new ethical rationale based on Aristotelian principles.
Findings
Characterizes proportional redistribution through axioms
Provides a new ethical justification for proportionality
Bridges ancient ethics with modern redistribution theory
Abstract
The ethic of proportional redistribution is a compromise between the extremely compensatory ethic of full redistribution and the needs-blind ethic of laissez-faire. In a basic model of redistribution problems with needs, we characterize proportional redistribution with a combination of axioms that formalize minimal requirements of accountability, functionality, and impartiality. Consequently, we provide a new ethical rationalization for the ancient Aristotelian maxim of proportionality.
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TopicsGame Theory and Voting Systems · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory