Proportional redistribution

2025/11/28 by Ricardo Martínez, Martinez, Ricardo, Juan D. Moreno‐Ternero +1
Arts and Humanities · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #FOS: Economics and business #Game Theory and Voting Systems #Philosophical Ethics and Theory #Political Philosophy and Ethics #Theoretical Economics (econ.TH)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.23374

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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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