Utilitarianism and discrimination |
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Authors: | Alon Harel Uzi Segal |
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Institution: | 1. The Hebrew University School of Law, Jerusalem, Israel 2. Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA
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Abstract: | Since Becker (1971), a common argument against asymmetric norms that promote minority rights over those of the majority is that such policies reduce total welfare. While this may be the case, we show that there are simple environments where aggregate sum of individual utilities is actually maximized under asymmetric norms that favor minorities. We thus maintain that without information regarding individual utilities one cannot reject or promote segregation-related policies based on utilitarian arguments. |
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