SEMINAIRE DE RECHERCHE EN ECONOMIE - GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne : Constanze Binder

Constanze Binder, Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam présentera un séminaire intitulé : Walking a Mile in your Shoes: An Escape from Arrovian Impossibilities.

Thème de recherche / Main topics : Social Choice Theory, Comparative Justice, Deliberation, Action-guidance

Constanze Binder

Résumé / abstract  : This paper explores approaches to comparative justice (Sen, 2009) by drawing on Social Choice Theory. We introduce a procedure to correct for the influence of unquestioned parochial values on individual justice rankings: individuals are put into the position of other members of society allowing them to question (and possibly change) their justice ordering. In a first step, it is shown under which conditions this procedure leads to a domain restriction such that majority rule yields a social justice ordering. In a second step, it is examined how the introduced procedure can be used to distinguish between "reasoned" and "unreasoned" agreement. The paper concludes with a discussion as to how the findings cast doubt on the unqualified acceptance of the (weak) Pareto condition.

Walking a Mile in your Shoes: An Escape from Arrovian Impossibilities