@techreport{Lombardi2009Liberal,
abstract = {This paper analyses Rawls's celebrated difference principle, and its lexicographic extension, in societies with a finite and an infinite number of agents. A unified 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 [12]. This is quite surprising, because the Harm principle is meant to capture a liberal requirement of noninterference and it incorporates no obvious egalitarian content. A set of new characterisations of the maximin and of its lexicographic refinement are derived, including in the intergenerational context with an infinite number of agents.},
address = {London},
author = {Michele Lombardi and Roberto Veneziani},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {D70; Q01; 330; difference principle; leximin; weak harm principle; infinite utility streams; Liberalismus; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Rawls-Gerechtigkeitstheorie},
language = {eng},
number = {649},
publisher = {Queen Mary, Univ. of London, School of Economics and Finance},
title = {Liberal egalitarianism and the harm principle},
type = {Working Paper // School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary, University of London},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/55150},
year = {2009}
}
