On the economics of basic liberties

Hans-Peter Weikard

Social Choice and Welfare, 2004, vol. 22, issue 1, 267-280

Abstract: The paper discusses the problem of initial assignments of rights. An attempt is made to characterise a system of rights in the spirit of Rawls’s first principle of justice according to which society should adopt the most extensive system of equal basic liberties. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2004

Date: 2004
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