A Game Form Approach to Theories of Distributive Justice -- Formalizing Needs Principle --

This paper discusses and develops "non-welfaristic" arguments on distributive justice, mainly basing upon J. Rawls and A.K. Sen, and formalizes, in cooperative production economies, "non-welfaristic" distribution rules as game forms. First, it conceptualizes Needs Principle that the distribution rule taking individuals' needs into account should satisfy. Second, one class of distribution rule satisfying Needs Principle, a class of J-based Capability Maximum Rules, is proposed.