摘要

In the context of ranking infinite utility streams, the impartiality axiom of finite length anonymity requires the equal ranking of any two utility streams that are equal up to a finite length permutation (Fleurbaey and Michel, 2003). We first characterize any finite length permutation as a composition of a fixed step permutation and an "almost" fixed step permutation. We then show that if a binary relation satisfies finite length anonymity, then it violates all the distributional axioms that are based on a segment-wise comparison. Examples of those axioms include the weak Pareto principle and the weak Pigou-Dalton principle.

  • 出版日期2010-9-20