By what criteria should public policy be evaluated? Fairness and justice? Or the welfare of individuals? Debate over this fundamental question has spanned the a

Summary of, and response to criticism of, the authors' book, Fairness versus welfare (Harvard University Press, 2002).

The definition and measurement of social welfare have been a vexed issue for the past century. This book makes a constructive, easily applicable proposal and su

The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal definition of distrib

What is a fair distribution of resources and other goods when individuals are partly responsible for their achievements? This book develops a theory of fairness