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What is ‘fair’? – one more time

30 June 2025

George Rebane The use of ‘fair’, as in ‘the rich need to pay their fair share’, is one the most nefarious misuse of language in the public square. Oxford Languages defines the adjective as “impartial and just, without favoritism or discrimination”. Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem (Nobel 1972, here) proves that in collective decision making among alternatives it is…