Question 14.82

image 52. Considering the problem of apportioning goods to people according to financial contributions, as in Exercise 8 on page 614 (allocating pearls bought at auction) or Exercise 13 on page 614 (rare coins), list the pros and cons for each of the apportionment methods listed below. Considerthe appropriateness of the following standards of comparison: paradoxes, quota condition, bias favoring small or large states, district population equity, representative share equity, and percentage equity.

  1. Hamilton
  2. Jefferson
  3. Webster
  4. Dean
  5. Hill-Huntington