Rawlsian

"Rawlsian" in a Sentence (3 examples)

People differ on whether they care about fairness at all, and when they do care about fairness the notion of fairness they employ differes widely, ranging from Rawlsian (Leontief) to Utilitarian (perfect substitutes).

From behind the Rawlsian veil, consumption and leisure interact with mortality to determine expected utility.

After my first paper on Rawlsian justice—modeling what that justice would look like in an extremely simple kind of economy—a large part of my work took up for some time questions about a Rawlsian economy with capital, overlapping generations, and some principle for determining the national saving.

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