Word: welled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the ruling, Silber told one female professor that a person with her credentials would do well "and anyway... your husband is a parachute, so why are you worried...
...last stipulation, also called the Difference Principle, insists that the situation of the poorest members of society be considered when creating a system of justice. It allows inequality of wealth and income, but only if the prosperity of the top can be harnessed to contribute to the well-being of the bottom...
...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...
...think it's going to be a real shot in the arm for women as well as minorities," said Barbara Lee, an attorney on the faculty at Rutgers University and the author of Academics in Court...
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 is that the inequalities in society be harnessed to provide some benefit to the poor. Rawls' "Justice as Fairness" is not about levelling equality. A more truly Rawlsian policy might be adjusting marginal tax rates on high incomes and channeling the revenue to the less well...