Land Reform and the Fairness-Welfare Trade-off
Speaker
Erel Segal-Halevi
Date
10/05/2016 - 12:30 - 11:00Add To Calendar
2016-05-10 11:00:00
2016-05-10 12:30:00
Land Reform and the Fairness-Welfare Trade-off
Abstract: Fairness is not always compatible with social welfare. A fair division might have a low utilitarian social welfare, while a division maximizing the utilitarian social welfare might be very unfair towards most of the population. My goal is to find feasible trade-off points between these two goals, focusing on fair land division. I present several trade-off points that differ according to the geometric constraints on the land plots. These trade-off points are constructive. They are based on procedures that convert an existing unfair division to a new partially-fair division. They can be interpreted as procedures for implementing a fair “land reform”.
Economics building (No. 504), room 011.
אוניברסיטת בר-אילן - Department of Economics
Economics.Dept@mail.biu.ac.il
Asia/Jerusalem
public
Place
Economics building (No. 504), room 011.
Affiliation
Bar-Ilan University
Abstract
Abstract: Fairness is not always compatible with social welfare. A fair division might have a low utilitarian social welfare, while a division maximizing the utilitarian social welfare might be very unfair towards most of the population. My goal is to find feasible trade-off points between these two goals, focusing on fair land division. I present several trade-off points that differ according to the geometric constraints on the land plots. These trade-off points are constructive. They are based on procedures that convert an existing unfair division to a new partially-fair division. They can be interpreted as procedures for implementing a fair “land reform”.
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