Dolan Paul, Tsuchiya Aki
Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, University of London, United Kingdom.
J Health Econ. 2009 Jan;28(1):210-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.10.003. Epub 2008 Nov 1.
The literature on income distribution has attempted to evaluate different degrees of inequality using a social welfare function (SWF) approach. However, it has largely ignored the source of such inequalities, and has thus failed to consider different degrees of inequity. The literature on egalitarianism has addressed issues of equity, largely in relation to individual responsibility. This paper builds upon these two literatures, and introduces individual responsibility into the SWF. Results from a small-scale study of people's preferences in relation to the distribution of health benefits are presented to illustrate how the parameter values of a SWF might be determined.
关于收入分配的文献试图采用社会福利函数（SWF）方法来评估不同程度的不平等。然而，它在很大程度上忽略了此类不平等的根源，因此未能考虑不同程度的不公平。关于平等主义的文献主要探讨了公平问题，很大程度上与个人责任相关。本文基于这两类文献，将个人责任引入社会福利函数。文中呈现了一项关于人们对健康福利分配偏好的小规模研究结果，以说明如何确定社会福利函数的参数值。
