Arbitrary small indivisibilities may play an important role when the strong survival assumption does not hold. A hierarchic price is a finite ordered family of price vectors <InlineEquation ID="Equ1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX"><![CDATA[$\{p_1,\ldots ,p_k\}$]]></EquationSource> </InlineEquation>. It extends the notion of exchange values proposed by Gay [15]. These price notions were introduced in order to...</equationsource></inlineequation>

This paper discusses and develops “non-welfaristic” arguments on distributive justice à la J. Rawls and A. K. Sen, and formalizes, in cooperative production economies, “non-welfaristic” distribution rules as game form types of resource allocation schemes. First, it conceptualizes Needs...