There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.
John RawlsAt best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.
John RawlsThe natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.
John RawlsThe circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
John Rawls