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Mathematical Social Sciences
Volume 8, Issue 1, August 1984, Pages 15-28
 
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Copyright © 1984 Published by Elsevier Inc.

Monotonicity, stability and egalitarianism

William Thomson*

Department of Economics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627,U.S.A.

Received 2 February 1983; 
revised 7 March 1984. 
Communicated by J.C. Harsanyi. 
Available online 1 March 2002.

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Abstract

Adivision problem is a subset of the utility space representing the alternatives available to a group of agents. Asolution is a method of selecting from each division problem in some class an equitable compromise. Theegalitarian solution selects the only undominated alternative with equal coordinates. This solution is the only one to satisfy the following axioms:weak Pareto- optimality, symmetry, continuity, monotonicity (if the number of agents increases but not the resources at their disposal, all the original agents should help support the newcomers) andweak stability (the compromise should appear equitable to every subgroup).

Keywords: Division problem; egalitarian solution; monotonicity; stability


 
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