Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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975759 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2007 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Envy is a rather complex and irrational emotion. In general, it is very difficult to obtain a measure of this feeling, but in an economical context envy becomes an observable which can be measured. When various individuals compare their possessions, envy arises due to the inequality of their different allocations of commodities and different preferences. In this paper, we show that an equitable distribution of goods does not guarantee a state of fairness between agents and in general that envy cannot be controlled by tuning the distribution of goods.
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Authors
Elena RamÃrez Barrios, Juan G. DÃaz Ochoa, Johannes J. Schneider,