@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp13662,
            	author={Stark, Oded},
            	title={An Economics-Based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program},
            	year={2020},
	month={Sep},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={13662},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13662},
	abstract={We show that a social planner who seeks to allocate a given sum in order to reduce efficiently the social stress of a population, as measured by the aggregate relative deprivation of the population, pursues a disbursement procedure that is identical to the procedure adhered to by a Rawlsian social planner who seeks to allocate the same sum in order to maximize the Rawlsian maximin-based social welfare function. Thus, the constrained minimization of aggregate relative deprivation constitutes an economics-based rationale for the philosophy-based constrained maximization of the Rawlsian social welfare function.},
	keywords={congruence of the algorithm with the Rawlsian social welfare program;Rawlsian social welfare function;social stress;aggregate relative deprivation (ARD);an algorithm of cost-effective policy response to ARD},
            }