Rawlsian

English Etymology From en Rawls ian. Adjective Of, relating to, or influenced by John Rawls (1921–2002), American moral and political philosopher. en James Andreoni and John Miller Giving according to GARP Econometrica 70 2 2002 745 People differ on whether they care about fairness at all, and when they do care about fairness the notion of fairness they employ differes widely, ranging from Rawlsian (Leontief) to Utilitarian (perfect substitutes). en American Economic Review 2016 106 9 2426--2457 10.1257/aer.20110236 Charles I. Jones Peter J. Klenow Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time 2435 From behind the Rawlsian veil, consumption and leisure interact with mortality to determine expected utility. en 2023 Edmund Phelps My Journeys in Economic Theory Columbia University Press 81 After my first paper on Rawlsian justice—modeling what that justice would look like in an extremely simple kind of economy—a large part of my work took up for some time questions about a Rawlsian economy with capital, overlapping generations, and some principle for determining the national saving. Derived terms en Rawlsianism Noun A follower of the theories of John Rawls. en eponyms en Philosophy