URL des Documents de travail : http://ces.univ-paris1.fr/cesdp/CESFramDP2008.htm<br /><br />Classification JEL : D63, D81.Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2008.69 - ISSN : 1955-611XThe evaluation of social risk equity for alternative probability distributions over the potential sets of fatalities is analyzed axiomatically. Fishburn and Straffin [Equity considerations in public risks valuation, Operatons Research 37 (1999), 229-239] have identified a necessary and sufficient condition for two social risk distributions to be judged to be socially indifferent whenever their associated distributions of risk of death for individuals and for the number of fatalities are the same. It is argued that this approach does not pe...