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Abstract
Justin Holt argues that the Rawlsian requirements for justice are, contrary to Rawls’ own pronouncements, better met by socialism than ‘property owning democracy’, both of them preferring both to just plain capitalism, even with a welfare state tacked on. I suggest that Rawls’s ‘requirements’ are far less clear than most think, and that the only clarified version prefers the capitalist welfare state.
Keywords : Democracy; property-owning democracy; markets; constitutional restrictions; difference principle; equality
Published Online: 2017-11-01
Published in Print: 2017-11-01
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
