Fair rights

David Austen-Smith

doi:10.1016/0165-1765(79)90086-7

Fair rights

David Austen-Smith^*

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Managerial Economics, Decision Sciences and Operations

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This note argues that analysis of constraints on rights assignments per se is important for social choice theory. By way of illustration, the equity concept of 'fairness', when applied to rights, is shown to admit the existence of libertarian social decision functions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	29-32
Number of pages	4
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	4
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1765(79)90086-7
State	Published - 1979

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