Integrated Science Laboratory, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
PLoS One. 2012;7(6):e38529. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038529. Epub 2012 Jun 26.
How to distribute welfare in a society is a key issue in the subject of distributional justice, which is deeply involved with notions of fairness. Following a thought experiment by Dworkin, this work considers a society of individuals with different preferences on the welfare distribution and an official to mediate the coordination among them. Based on a simple assumption that an individual's welfare is proportional to how her preference is fulfilled by the actual distribution, we show that an egalitarian preference is a strict Nash equilibrium and can be favorable even in certain inhomogeneous situations. These suggest how communication can encourage and secure a notion of fairness.
如何在社会中分配福利是分配正义学科的一个关键问题，它与公平观念密切相关。本文通过德沃金的一个思想实验，考虑了一个由具有不同福利分配偏好的个体和一个官员组成的社会，其中官员负责协调他们之间的关系。基于一个简单的假设，即个体的福利与其偏好被实际分配满足的程度成正比，我们表明，平等主义偏好是一个严格纳什均衡，即使在某些非同质情况下也可能是有利的。这些结果表明了沟通如何能够促进和确保公平观念。
