Having enough and not having too much: A characterization of sufficientarianism–limitarianism
用公理化的方法刻画了一个同时包含充足主义和限制主义的社会福利标准，探讨其对资源分配的含义，为规范经济学分析提供理论基础。
Sufficientarianism, a prominent framework in distributive justice, asserts that everyone should have enough resources to meet a minimum threshold. Limitarianism, by contrast, holds that no individual should possess more than a specified upper limit of income or wealth . While the latter has gained attention in political philosophy and policy debates, it remains largely unexplored in formal normative economics. This paper bridges this gap by offering an axiomatic characterization of a social welfare criterion that integrates sufficientarian and limitarian principles. We formalize these dual commitments and investigate their implications for resource allocation . The analysis sheds light on the theoretical underpinnings of this hybrid approach and its potential relevance for normative analysis.