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  • The problem of justice
    • Normative vs. empirical platform
    • Equality
    • Complexity of judging based on "weight of contributions" vs. "need"


  • Other aspects of justice: procedural justice
    • Arbitrary policies and due process
    • Special basic rights
      • The right to survive
      • The right to free speech
      • The right to privacy
    • Overriding social needs


  • Effectiveness
    • Achieving the greatest benefits at the least cost
    • Difficulties of determining the costs and benefits of policies
    • Problem of unanticipated consequences
    • Judgment of efficiency of a policy must take intended and unintended costs into account


  • Effectiveness?: authority vs. the market
    • Problems with authority-based policy
    • Problems with the market-based policy


  • The need to act, even under uncertainty


  • Power and Choice


  • Examples: Political Choice
    • The problem of need-based scholarships
    • The problem of water pollution
    • Children as collective good
    • Gender-based pension payments





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