Rawls on International Distributive Economic Justice: Taking a Closer Look

Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 226-242

  Martin, Rex ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic infrastructure; Economic justice; Equality of opportunity; Industrialization; Population growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349165710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470776612.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

References (12)

1. The Law of Peoples with "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" (hereafter LoP), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
2. Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (hereafter JasF ), ed. Erin Kelly, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
3. John Rawls: Collected Papers (hereafter CP), ed. Samuel Freeman, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
4. For Rawls's account of these "decent" nonliberal societies see LoP, sects. 8 and 9 (esp. p. 77) and p. 88.
5. For the crucial idea of a "common good" conception of justice see LoP, pp. 61, 64-7, 69, 83, and sect. 9.
6. See LoP, sect. 16, for his main argument; also LoP, p. 106.
7. For the first comparison, and for the passages quoted, see LoP, p. 117.
8. These are the considerations that Rawls himself advances. See LoP, pp. 118-19.
9. For some examples of such arguments, see the article by Samuel Freeman in this volume.
10. The passage quoted is from LoP, p. 113.
11. The examples of rule of law institutions were suggested to me by David Reidy.
12. See LoP, p. 117.