McKenzie Alexander presents a dilemma for a social planner who wants to correct the unfair distribution of an indivisible good between two equally worthy individuals or groups: either she guarantees a fair outcome, or she follows a fair procedure (but not both). In this paper I show that this dilemma only holds if the social planner can redistribute the good in question at most once. To wit, the bias of the initial distribution always washes out when we allow for sufficiently many redistributions.

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我们有重新分配的困境

McKenzie Alexander 为想要纠正两个同等价值的个人或群体之间不可分割的物品的不公平分配的社会计划者提出了一个困境：要么保证公平的结果，要么遵循公平的程序（但不是两者兼而有之）。在本文中，我表明只有当社会计划者最多可以重新分配所讨论的物品一次时，这种困境才成立。也就是说，当我们允许足够多的重新分布时，初始分布的偏差总是会消失。