How to be Fairer
The article ‘How to be Fairer‘, jointly authored with Stefan Wintein, is now published by Synthese.
The article ‘How to be Fairer‘, jointly authored with Stefan Wintein, is now published by Synthese.
We confront the philosophical literature on fair division problems with axiomatic and game-theoretic work in economics. Firstly, we show that the proportionality method advocated in Curtis (in Analysis 74:417–57, 2014) is not implied by a general principle of fairness, and that the proportional rule cannot be explicated axiomatically from that very principle. Secondly, we suggest that … Read more
The 2015 OZSW conference took place at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in December 2015. We gave a talk on “How to be Fairer”.