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MEASURING A NEGLECTED TYPE OF LOTTERY UNFAIRNESS

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Abstract: When it is most fair for a claimant to receive a particular chance of benefiting (e.g. 50%) but they instead receive a different chance of benefiting (e.g. 40%), this… Click to show full abstract

Abstract: When it is most fair for a claimant to receive a particular chance of benefiting (e.g. 50%) but they instead receive a different chance of benefiting (e.g. 40%), this lower chance is not ideally fair. I specify the often-overlooked type of individual unfairness evident in differences of this kind and argue for four intuitively supported criteria that a measure of this unfairness must meet. I defend the Asymmetrical Proportional View, which meets these criteria and is a measure of how individually unfair any particular difference of this kind is. Finally I conclude with the View's implications for theories of distributive fairness.

Keywords: chance; type lottery; philosophy; lottery unfairness; neglected type; measuring neglected

Journal Title: Economics and Philosophy
Year Published: 2017

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