Kenneth Arrow on Rawls’s “asset egalitarian” assumption about justice

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Kenneth Arrow presents Rawls as making a controversial assumption, which he terms “asset egalitarianism”: that all the assets of society, including personal skills, are available for distribution. I distinguish two versions of the assumption and draw attention to difficulties in determining what Arrow’s concern over the assumption is.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
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