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Sunday, March 20, 2022

Rawls and the Market Economy

Andrew Koppelman

Should we endure the astounding levels of inequality that modern capitalism has engendered? John Rawls, the most influential political philosopher of the 20th century, offers a powerful framework for considering this question. His work does not, however, provide a good guide to the implications of that framework, because his own response is ill-informed about how the U.S. economy operates today. Here, even Rawlsians need to move past Rawls.

I explain in a new essay at National Affairs.


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