The utilitarian economist and Nobel Laureate John Harsanyi and the liberal egalitarian philosopher John Rawls were two of the most eminent scholars writing on problems of social justice in the last century. This volume pays tribute to Harsanyi and Rawls by investigating themes that figure prominently in their work. In some cases, the contributors explore issues considered by Harsanyi and Rawls in more depth and from novel perspectives. In others, the contributors use the work of Harsanyi and Rawls as points of departure for pursuing the construction of theories for the evaluation of social justice. The introductory essay by the editors provides background information on the relevant economics, game theory, philosophy, and social choice theory, as well as readers' guides to the individual contributions, to make this volume widely accessible to scholars in a wide range of disciplines.
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1. An introduction to justice, political liberalism, and utilitarianism Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles and John A. Weymark
Part I. Themes from Rawls: 2. John Rawls's theory of justice: some critical comments John C. Harsanyi
3. Rawls, responsibility, and distributive justice Richard Arneson
4. Improving our ethical beliefs James Griffin
Part II. Harsanyi's Impartial Observer and Social Aggregation Theorems: 5. Harsanyi's impartial observer is not a utilitarian John E. Roemer
6. Social aggregation and the expected utility hypothesis Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson and John A. Weymark
7. A welfarist version of Harsanyi's aggregation theorem Claude d'Aspremont and Philippe Mongin
8. Preference aggregation after Harsanyi Matthias Hild, Richard Jeffrey and Mathias Risse
Part III. Goodness and Well-Being: 9. Can there be a preference-based utilitarianism? John Broome
10. Harsanyi, Rawls and the search for a common currency of advantage Robert Sugden
11. Utilitarianism versus fairness in welfare economics Marc Fleurbaey and Francois Maniquet
12. Rationality and want-satisfaction Brian Barry
Part IV. Sharing the Gains from Social Cooperation
13. Naturalizing Harsanyi and Rawls Ken Binmore
14. The social contract naturalized Brian Skyrms
15. An alternative model of rational cooperation Edward F. McClennen
Part V. Rights and Liberties: 16. Republican political theory Philip Pettit
17. Rule utilitarianism and liberal priorities Jonathan Riley.