Rawlsian

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1. Of, relating to, or influenced by John Rawls (1921–2002), American moral and political philosopher.

   From behind the Rawlsian veil, consumption and leisure interact with mortality to determine expected utility.

   2016, Charles I. Jones, Peter J. Klenow, “Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time”, in American Economic Review, volume 106, number 9, →DOI, page 2435 of 2426--2457

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   People differ on whether they care about fairness at all, and when they do care about fairness the notion of fairness they employ differes widely, ranging from Rawlsian (Leontief) to Utilitarian (perfect substitutes).

   2002, James Andreoni and John Miller, “Giving according to GARP”, in Econometrica, volume 70, number 2, page 745

   After my first paper on Rawlsian justice—modeling what that justice would look like in an extremely simple kind of economy—a large part of my work took up for some time questions about a Rawlsian economy with capital, overlapping generations, and some principle for determining the national saving.

   2023, Edmund Phelps, My Journeys in Economic Theory, Columbia University Press, page 81

plural Rawlsians

1. A follower of the theories of John Rawls.