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Well John Rawls wouldn't either. The first flaw in the Ec 10 example is that it presents two fundamentally unequal situations. If you do your math, you will notice that the entire social pie in the first alternative is $9,900,001. In the second example, the social pie has mysteriously shrunken to a few crumbs, or $200. The choice is a joke...
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...
...ubiquitous pinup during World War II: a surrealistically gorgeous woman partially dressed in a shimmering negligee knelt on a bed and smiled enigmatically over her bare left shoulder. Inspired by this stunning vision in black-and-white, countless G.I.s knew exactly what they were fighting for. Mom, apple pie and Rita Hayworth...
Like many another entrepreneur, Bond had never given much thought to art until he got rich. "This Pie-casso, now," he asked an Australian museum man over dinner in Sydney in the early 1980s, "is he worth having?" But a major impressionist collection was what Bond hankered after. He knew this could not possibly come cheap. He didn't care. He was, in short, a dealer's dream: Billionaris ignorans, a species now almost extinct in the U.S. but preserved (along with other ancient life-forms) in the Antipodes...
Square Books (25,000; Oxford, Miss.). This charming store in a Reconstruction- era building carries a full range of titles and offers tomato-basil pie in a second-floor cafe. Owner Richard Howorth maintains a local flavor with a section devoted to Oxford's best-known citizen, William Faulkner. A small sign above the stack of copies of the 8 1/2-lb. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reads, $5.98 PER LB. SAME AS CATFISH FILLETS...