A Lexicographic Decision Rule With Tolerances
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Abstract
The implementation of the Wujciak algorithm as a new rule for organ allocation by Eurotransplant is of considerable interest for the theorist of choice making. In the process reformers accepted the status quo in principle but expected that their potential opponents would be willing to make minimal or 'tolerable' concessions. Thereby the consensual introduction of new dimensions of value and reforms of allocation practices based thereupon became viable. The paper characterizes a decision procedure based on ‘almost lexicographically pre-ordering established values and practices’ in a stylized manner, presents a formal reconstruction of it and points out some of its potential implications for rule choices in general.
© 2001 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
Articles in the same Issue
- Organtransplantation im Eurotransplantverbund
- Kidney Allocation in Eurotransplant
- Fair Kidney Allocation Based on Waiting Time
- A Lexicographic Decision Rule With Tolerances
- Hard Choices Softened Locally
- Common Sense in Organ Allocation
- A Rational Reconstruction of Expert Judgments in Organ Allocation
- Patterns of Decision Making in Kidney Allocation Problems
- The Eurotransplant Kidney Allocation Algorithm–Moral Consensus or Pragmatic Compromise?
- The Supply Side of Organ Allocation
- Distributive Justice in Kidney Allocation
Articles in the same Issue
- Organtransplantation im Eurotransplantverbund
- Kidney Allocation in Eurotransplant
- Fair Kidney Allocation Based on Waiting Time
- A Lexicographic Decision Rule With Tolerances
- Hard Choices Softened Locally
- Common Sense in Organ Allocation
- A Rational Reconstruction of Expert Judgments in Organ Allocation
- Patterns of Decision Making in Kidney Allocation Problems
- The Eurotransplant Kidney Allocation Algorithm–Moral Consensus or Pragmatic Compromise?
- The Supply Side of Organ Allocation
- Distributive Justice in Kidney Allocation
