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Implicit in the Ec 10 presentation is that Rawlsian justice means measures that would unjustly punish the most advantaged members of society. By presenting the possibility of all members of society getting equal parts of a tiny pie, Ec 10 evokes images of inefficiency and communism.
Section leaders encourage students to object to Rawls' scheme on the grounds that it unwisely compromises efficiency for the sake of equity. It is true that a Rawlsian society does focus on the least well-off and contends that income differentials must be justified. But all the Difference Principle asks...
Exaggeration is a useful educational tool. However Ec 10's presentation of Rawlsian distributive justice is not just a case of using an extreme example to illustrate a point. The selective witholding of inconvenient parts of Rawls' assumptions is careless at best and dishonest at worst. If Rawls' ideas are...
THE misportrayal of Rawls' "Justice of Fairness" hurts all parties involved. First-year students will graduate from Ec 10 with a flawed concept of an important modern political philosophy. But Ec 10 also suffers. Students who have taken the popular Moral Reasoning course "Justice" or Philosophy 171, both of which...
I am not a rabid Ec 10 hater. In fact if the course is taken with a healthy skepticism, I think it can be one of the most valuable offerings at Harvard. But, given that it is the only exposure of many Harvard students to economics, it has an added...