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The Difference Principle tells us to choose the former, says Ec 10--and that's where Glick gets off the bus. "What lunacy!" he writes. "I would never choose to live under such constraints."
But would he? Remember, Rawls wants us to choose our political institutions without knowing in advance what place we'll end up holding in the world we design, so it's not enough to say that citizens of the wealthier society are better off "on average." Each of us has...
"No one's really talking about what kind ofeconomy Massachusetts should have," Dixon said
But lack of central control was an obvious problem last week. Under Ceausescu's paranoid purges and the vigilance of his secret police, no significant resistance movement was able to form. The explosion that ended his reign resulted from spontaneous combustion, and the people who powered it were only beginning...
Even Henry Kissinger talks with reverence and, perhaps, envy when he views this swirling epoch. "This will be a truly historic presidency," Kissinger says. Just back from Hamburg, where he met with scholars and thinkers from both East and West Europe, Kissinger was fascinated with the difference. "The West Europeans...