IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/halshs-02519686.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

On the usefulness of envy-freeness in a "welfarist" approach of justice
[De l'utilité de l'absence d'envie dans une approche "welfariste" de la justice]

Author

Listed:
  • Claude Gamel

    (LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

In the "welfarist" approach of normative economics issued from the utilitarian tradition, the envy-freeness criterion may overcome the fundamental debate between "old" and "new" welfare economics. Owing to the notion of "intrapersonal" utility comparisons, economic theory is advancing through the deep question of social justice, specially about the definition of equality of opportunity. Nevertheless, in the envy-freeness theory of justice, everyone gets only the "position" of other people, without identifying oneself with their "character"; from an ethical point of view, this attitude is a restrictive one, in comparison with the idea of perfect procedural justice, which is nowadays explored by social philosophy.

Suggested Citation

  • Claude Gamel, 1994. "On the usefulness of envy-freeness in a "welfarist" approach of justice [De l'utilité de l'absence d'envie dans une approche "welfariste" de la justice]," Post-Print halshs-02519686, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-02519686
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-02519686. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.