Living Standards and Capabilities: Equal Values or Equal Sets?

Analyse & Kritik 29 (2):226-234 (2007)
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Inspired by Gaertner and Xu (2006), this paper examines the possibility to construct a social ordering over distributions of capability sets, and a measure of the value of individual capability sets, such that perfect equality of sets, across individuals, is preferable to a simple equality of the value of sets. It is shown that this is a rather demanding requirement.

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10.1515/auk-2007-0207

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