Opportunities as Chances: Maximising the Probability that Everybody Succeeds
将社会中的机会解释为成功概率,论证应使用纳什准则评估机会分配,目标是最大化所有人同时成功的概率,并探讨代际正义的扩展。
Opportunities in society are commonly interpreted as `chances of success'. Within this interpretation, should opportunities be equalised? We show that a liberal principle of justice and a limited principle of social rationality imply that opportunity profiles should be evaluated by means of a `Nash' criterion. The interpretation is new: the social objective should be to maximise the chance that everybody in society succeeds. In particular, the failure of even only one individual must be considered maximally detrimental. We also study a refinement of this criterion and its extension to problems of intergenerational justice.