This paper analyses the implications of classical liberal and libertarian approaches for distributive justice in the context of social welfare orderings. An axiom capturing a liberal non-interfering view of society, named the Weak Harm Principle, is studied, whose roots can be traced back to...

In this paper, we consider the problem of ranking linear budget sets with different available goods. We introduce axioms that are based on preference-based and preference-independent views of evaluating freedom, as well as two basic axioms. By using these axioms, we characterize two ranking rules.

This note shows that the maximin social ordering, which is wellknown in the social choice theory, is characterized by Hammond Equity, Continuity, and Weak Pareto Principle.