Fairness as Bargaining Solution

Social justice debates can be reframed as bargaining problems: fairness arises not from discovering eternal principles but from negotiated rules that solve recurring allocation problems (who does what, who gets what). Using game theory (Ken Binmore’s contractualism) shows how competing priorities—liberty, equality, efficiency—map onto incentives and stable agreements. — If activists and policymakers adopt a bargaining/mechanism view of fairness, policy design would focus on institutional incentives, enforceability and stable compromises rather than purely moral exhortation.