New results linking inequality and justice

Guillermina Jasso

doi:10.1080/0022250X.2020.1715970

New results linking inequality and justice

Guillermina Jasso

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Abstract

Recent work revives the classic idea that the sense of justice is the first line of defense against inequality and shows that the link depends, in part, on ideas of the just reward. This paper extends earlier work, making three new contributions: (1) it expands the just reward scenarios from the micro scenarios (which start with the individual's idea of the just reward) to six new macro scenarios (which start with the distribution of everyone's ideas of the just reward); (2) it expands the set of justice measures from three to four, including now the proportion underrewarded; and (3) it obtains results for all the new cases, identifying the conditions that lead to radically different connections between inequality and justice.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-21
Number of pages	21
Journal	Journal of Mathematical Sociology
Volume	45
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0022250X.2020.1715970
State	Published - 2021

Keywords

Inequality and justice
inequality measures and justice measures
just rewards; justice evaluations
probability distributions

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Algebra and Number Theory
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science

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