Document Type
Discussion Paper
Publication Date
3-1-2003
CFDP Number
1408
CFDP Pages
26
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Roemer, John E., "Eclectic Distributional Ethics" (2003). Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers. 1676.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cowles-discussion-paper-series/1676