Reply to Alexander and Musgrave
- 1 November 1974
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 88 (4) , 633-655
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1881827
Abstract
I. The notion of a well-ordered society, 633. — II. The role of the original position, 637. — III. The first pair-wise comparison: two principles of justice vs. the principle of utility, 639. — IV. Alexander on the conflation problem: choice of parameter presupposes underlying conception, 643. — V. Second pair-wise comparison: interpretation of maximin, and risk aversion as a consequence, not as an assumption, 646. — VI. The contract condition and the strains of commitment, 650. — VII. Musgrave on leisure trade-off: maximin not merely second best, 653.Keywords
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