Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism

This collection of essays on Harsanyi and Rawls is intended for audiences across economics, political science, and philosophy.

Autorentext
Marc Fleurbaey is Professor at the Centre de Recherche Sens, Ethique, Societe (CERSES) at the University of Paris-5 and Research Director at the CNRS, France. He is also serving as a Lachmann Fellow at the London School of Economics in 2006-08. Professor Fleurbaey coedited the Cambridge University Press journal Economics and Philosophy from 2000 to 2004. Maurice Salles is Professor of Economics at the University of Caen, France, where he has taught since 1984. Coordinating editor of the journal Social Choice and Welfare since 1984, he coedited the volume Social Choice, Welfare, and Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and has served as an Honorary Research Associate at the London School of Economics since 2002. John A. Weymark is Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He served as Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia from 1986 to 1999. Professor Weymark is President-Elect of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare through 2007 and also serves as a Managing Editor of the journal Social Choice and Welfare.

Zusammenfassung
The utlitarian 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.

Inhalt
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 François 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.

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