In welfare economics, distributive efficiency occurs when goods and services are received by those who have the greatest need for them.
Abba Lerner first proposed the idea of distributive efficiency in his 1944 book The Economics of Control.
The concept of distributive efficiency is based on the law of diminishing marginal utility.
According to this economic law, as a person gets more to spend, things will be bought that give less and less utility.
Also, many Marxists, Kantians, and certain libertarians (such as Robert Nozick), all believe utility to be irrelevant as a moral standard or at least not as important as others such as natural rights.