The ethic of ‘priority’ is a compromise between the extremely compensatory ethic of ‘welfare equality’ and the needs-blind ethic of ‘income equality’. We propose an axiom of priority, and characterize resourceallocation rules that are impartial, prioritarian, and solidaristic. They comprise a class of rules which equalize across individuals some index of resources and welfare. Consequently, we ...

Recent developments in various branches of political science underscore the importance of empirical investigation of impartial views. This paper proposes and tests an empirical model of impartiality, inspired by Adam Smith (1759), that is based on the moral judgments of informed third parties (or spectators). The model predicts that spectatorship produces properties widely considered desirable ...

the medical profession, contributed to your journal by Mr. R. W. Harris. The knowledge and impartiality shown by Mr. Harris are only, of course, what those of us who knew him well in his official position would expect, and I think you are doing a great service in publishing articles which, while giving fair play to the profession, have shown up some of the weak points in the National Health Ins...