John Rawls’s scientific contributions

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Justice as Fairness
  • Book

May 2001

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John Rawls

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... This includes not only equal access to resources but also the fair and just distribution of benefits and burdens among individuals. A variant of this was posited by Rawls, inequalities should only be accepted if cases where the worst-off groups will be better off than they were under an equal distribution [45,46]. With equal treatment of individuals, the distribution of benefits and burdens scale with population, meaning that, for example, a more populous country or region should bear a larger share of both the benefits and burdens. ...

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The effects of fair allocation principles on energy system model designs
Justice as Fairness
  • Citing Book
  • May 2001