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Marc Fleurbaey is a Research Director of the National Center for Scientific Research
(CNRS) and serves on the staff of CERSES, the joint research entity of the CNRS
and the Université Paris Descartes. He first worked at INSEE, taught subsequently at
the Universities of Cergy-Pontoise and Pau, and as of 2011 is a professor at Princeton
University. Professor Fleurbaey is a research associate at CORE at the Université
Catholique de Louvain, at Sciences-Po in Paris, and at IDEP in Marseilles, and a
visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He is a former editor of the
journal Economics and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press) and is currently a
managing editor of Social Choice and Welfare. He is the author, editor, or coeditor
of seven books, including Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare (2008), and Justice,
Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls (with
Maurice Salles and John Weymark, Cambridge University Press, 2008). His papers
on normative and public economics have appeared in leading journals such as
Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Economic
Theory.
Editors:
Rosa L. Matzkin, University of California, Los Angeles
George J. Mailath, University of Pennsylvania
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   Marc Fleurbaey
   CERSES, Université Paris Descartes
   François Maniquet
   CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain
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        Contents
I Basics                                                         1
1 A Contribution to Welfare Economics                            3
  1.1 Introduction                                               3
  1.2 Theory of Fair Allocation                                  4
  1.3 Arrovian Social Choice Theory                             10
  1.4 Welfarism                                                 13
  1.5 Multidimensional Inequality and Welfare Dominance         14
  1.6 Bergson–Samuelson Social Welfare Functions                16
  1.7 Cost–Benefit Analysis                                     18
  1.8 Money-Metric Utilities                                    20
  1.9 Conclusion                                                22
2 Efficiency versus Equality                                    23
  2.1 Introduction                                              23
  2.2 Resource Equality versus Pareto Efficiency                24
  2.3 Accommodating Equality                                    28
  2.4 Conclusion                                                37
3 Priority to the Worst-Off                                     39
  3.1 Introduction                                              39
  3.2 Absolute Priority to the Worst-Off                        40
  3.3 From Nested-Contour Transfer to Absolute Priority         46
  3.4 From Equal-Split Transfer to Absolute Priority            49
  3.5 Conclusion                                                52
4 The Informational Basis of Social Orderings                   54
  4.1 Introduction                                              54
  4.2 The Feasible Set                                          54
  4.3 Information on Preferences                                60
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x          Contents
II   Distribution                                           73
5 Fair Distribution of Divisible Goods: Two Approaches      75
  5.1 Introduction                                          75
  5.2 From Equal Split to -Equivalence                     75
  5.3 A Walrasian SOF                                       80
  5.4 Second-Best Applications                              90
  5.5 Conclusion                                            95
6 Specific Domains                                          98
  6.1 Introduction                                          98
  6.2 Expected Utility                                      98
  6.3 Nonconvex Preferences                                101
  6.4 Homothetic Preferences                               105
  6.5 Indivisibles                                         109
  6.6 Conclusion                                           114
7 Extensions                                               115
  7.1 Introduction                                         115
  7.2 Cross-Profile SOFs                                   116
  7.3 Functionings                                         121
  7.4 Legitimate Endowments                                123
  7.5 Rationalizing Allocation Rules                       127
  7.6 Conclusion                                           131
Bibliography                                                     279
Index                                                            287
         Preface
The idea of the line of research presented in this book emerged from a con-
versation in the French foothills of the Pyrenees in April 1996. The prevailing
separation between the theory of social choice, the theory of fair allocation, and
public economics seemed to call for a unified approach that would construct
social preferences similar to the first, relying on fairness concepts from the
second, and derive policy conclusions for the third. It took more time than we
expected to transform this idea into a recognized theory, and we are pleased
to acknowledge the support and constructive influence of many colleagues and
friends. The late Louis Gevers, who had worked himself at the intersection
of social choice and fair allocation, was the first to express interest and pro-
vide encouragements. Our debt to him is immense. Peter Hammond, Philippe
Mongin, Juan de Diós Moreno-Ternero, Erwin Ooghe, Erik Schokkaert, Yves
Sprumont, Kotaro Suzumura, and Koichi Tadenuma were very helpful at dif-
ferent stages of our work and became coauthors and partners in this research.
We are also deeply indebted to Eric Maskin, John Roemer, and John Weymark,
who commented on and discussed several of our early works on this topic. Their
support was both helpful and encouraging. The interest shown by students who
made their own contribution to this direction of research, Efthymios Athanasiou
and Giacomo Valletta, was a great reward. The confirmation that a variety of
empirical applications were possible came thanks to the fruitful collaboration
with Koen Decancq, Brigitte Dormont, Michel Fouquin, Guillaume Gaulier,
Stéphane Luchini, Juan de Diós Moreno-Ternero, Christophe Muller, Esther
Regnier, and Erik Schokkaert, and the support of CEPII, the French Ministry
of Social Affairs, the Junta de Andalucı́a, and the Foundation of Risk. We also
benefited a great deal from the influence, through their work and through stim-
ulating conversation, of Serge Kolm, Hervé Moulin, and William Thomson, as
well as Dilip Abreu, Claude d’Aspremont, Tony Atkinson, Salvador Barberà,
Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, Antoine d’Autume, Angus Deaton, David
Donaldson, Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, Lionel Fontagné, Nicolas Gravel,
Faruk Gul, Michel Le Breton, Kevin Roberts, Amartya Sen, Alain Trannoy,
and Bertil Tungodden.
                                       xiii
xiv      Preface
   This manuscript benefited from many sorts of help. The first chapters owe
much to the hospitality of Nuffield College, Oxford, and later chapters to a
Lachmann fellowship at the London School of Economics and Political Science,
London, and a sabbatical semester at Northwestern University, Evanston. The
final preparation of the manuscript was greatly enhanced by a CORE Prize
and the focused settings of Louvain-la-Neuve. Summer schools at the Urrutja
Foundation, San Sebastian, the University of Hitotsubashi, Tokyo, and the
Universities of Málaga, Siena, Strasbourg, and Rouen, provided opportunities
for presentation and discussions. Detailed written comments were generously
provided by Juan de Diós Moreno-Ternero and Giacomo Valletta, as well as
by a reading group comprising Paolo Brunori, Karen Decancq, Koen Decancq,
Xavier Jara, Marco Mantovani, Erwin Ooghe, Paolo Piacquadio, Christelle
Sapata, and Stéphane Zuber. Two referees made very helpful suggestions and
provided detailed remarks that improved the text substantially. The interest
expressed, and advice provided, by the two editors who handled the manuscript,
Matt Jackson and George Mailath, is also gratefully acknowledged. Scott Parris,
from Cambridge University Press, gave us much help with his characteristic
enthusiasm. Our colleagues at CERSES and CORE deserve many thanks for
providing a supportive environment. Last, but not least, our families have not
only accepted absences and absent-mindedness, but also steadily supported our
interest in fairness and social justice. We dedicate this book to them.
             Introduction
                                                   xv
xvi          Introduction
2   In a more philosophical context, Sen (2009) emphasizes that, in view of the imperfections of the
    societies with which analysts and decision makers are grappling, it is important to rank the social
    alternatives instead of merely delineating a perfectly just but unattainable society as is done in
    many theories of justice.
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