Social Justice: Sen against Hayek and both facing Rawls. An a contrario argument for the contractualist approach of liberalism

Justice sociale: Sen contre Hayek face à Rawls. Le libéralisme contractualiste a contrario consolidé

Claude Gamel

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Abstract: Concerning social justice, Hayek and Sen use methods which are unexpectedly close enough, when compared to Rawlsian contractualism (Gamel [2013]). They also exploit classical "markers" of the liberal thought (Adam Smith's works, the role of the market, the recourse to the law), but they make of them various and even opposed uses. This second paradox leads to questioning the pragmatism of their respective approaches ("evolutionist" according to the former and "comparative" according to the latter), which provides Rawls' non pragmatic "contractualism" with an a contrario argument. That non pragmatic approach is the philosophical basis of an "economics of liberal egalitarianism".

Keywords: Liberalism; Social justice; Adam Smith; Markets; Social and economic rights; Liberal egalitarianism; Libéralisme; Justice sociale; Marchés; Droits économiques et sociaux; Égalitarisme libéral (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Cahiers d'Economie Politique = Papers in political economy, 2018, 74, pp.95-138. ⟨10.3917/cep.074.0095⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/cep.074.0095

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