id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_eg76hyatyrfnjj2eomipsory3m A. Harel Ex-Post Egalitarianism and Legal Justice 2005 19 .pdf application/pdf 8747 777 65 post analysis, on the other hand, relates to the final distribution of utilities. risks are independent, the second policy implies (for a sufficiently large society) a 10% increase in the utility of half of the population and no change A utilitarian society is interested in maximizing the sum of individual utilities and does not pay attention to the diversity of the distribution of utilities. Preferences for equality imply that society will be willing to reduce the average utility in order to make the distribution more concentrated around its Assuming that all individuals are expected utility maximizers, such preferences imply that the social welfare function is quasi-concave in ex ante utilities (Epstein and Segal, 1992). of convicted criminals, u3 is the utility of innocent victims of crime, u4 is the The conditions of Theorem 1 are thus satisfied (observe that the set of distributions society can choose from is a track) (section 3). ./cache/work_eg76hyatyrfnjj2eomipsory3m.pdf ./txt/work_eg76hyatyrfnjj2eomipsory3m.txt