Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls's Theory

By John C. Harsanyi. 1975

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Fairness Without Demographics in Repeated Loss Minimization (2018, background): “, 1974), and utilitarianism with diminishing returns as an alternative (Harsanyi, 1975).”
Veil-of-ignorance reasoning favors the greater good (2019, result): “) Our predictions are, however, most closely aligned with the ideas of Rawls’ contemporary and critic, John Harsanyi, an influential economist who independently conceived of VOI reasoning and argued that it provides a decision-theoretic foundation for a utilitarian social philosophy (6, 7).”
MEASURING FUTURE GRANDPARENTS' P REFERENCES FOR EQUALITY AND R ELATIVE S TANDING* (2002, background): “The arguments for this extreme risk-averse ‘maxi-min’ strategy are not very clear, however, and they have been criticised strongly by many economists including Arrow (1973), Harsanyi (1975b) and Ng (1990).”
1. The Scientific Model of Causality (2005, methodology): “The Veil of Ignorance of Vickrey (1945, 1960) and Harsanyi (1955, 1975) postulates that individuals are completely uncertain about their position in the distribution of outcomes under each policy considered, or should act as if they are completely uncertain, and they should use expected utility…”
Philosophical Perspectives on Risk (2004, background): “However, as the debate following Rawls’s Theory of Justice has shown, there is no single decision-rule for risk and uncertainty that all participants in a hypothetical initial situation can be supposed to adhere to (See Hare 1973; Harsanyi 1975).”
Which Is the Fairest One of All? A Positive Analysis of Justice Theories (2003, background): “The bargaining study of Nancy Buchan, Eric Johnson, and Rachel Croson (2003), on the other hand, also elicits fairness attitudes from U.S. and Japanese students, but since subjects express their views following the bargaining phase, these judgments are likely biased by rationalization (see Babcock e”
Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part I: Causal Models, Structural Models and Econometric Policy Evaluation (2007, methodology): “Heckman (1980, 1990), Heckman and Robb (1985, 1986), Heckman and Honoré (1990), Ahn and Powell (1993), Heckman and Smith (1998) and Carneiro, Hansen and Heckman (2003) present conditions for nonparametric and semiparametric identification of the selection model.”