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COWLES FOUNDATION DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 544 "Rawlsian Justice as the Core of a Game" John E. Roemer and Roger Howe 1980 It is suggested that the ethical notion of social contract can be formally modeled using the well-studied concept of the core of a game. This provides a mathematical technique for studying social contracts and theories of justice. The idea is applied to Rawlsian justice here. |
