Social Justice: Buchanan and Rawls

David Reisman

Chapter 4 in James Buchanan, 2015, pp 46-64 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Justice is tested by agreement. If men disagree then nothing is just. That is why the constitutional contractarian is obliged to put consultative procedures first. Equity is inseparable from consent. God has been dead for a century. Democracy is all that remains: ‘A “fair rule” is one that is agreed to by the players in advance of play itself, before the particularized positions of the players come to be identified. Note carefully what this definition says: A rule is fair if players agree to it. It does not say that players agree because a rule is fair’ (CW XVII, 313).

Keywords: Original Position; Procedural Justice; Difference Principle; Fair Procedure; Gold Coin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137427182_4

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