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COWLES FOUNDATION DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 1408 Eclectic Distributional Ethics John E. Roemer March 2003 Utilitarians, egalitarians, prioritarians, and sufficientarians each provide examples of situations demonstrating, often compellingly, that a sensible ethical observer must adopt their view and reject the others. We argue, to the contrary, that an attractive ethic is eclectic, in the sense of coinciding with these apparently different views in different regions of the space of social states. JEL Classification: D63 Keywords: Distributive justice, Ethics, Axiomatic social choice |
