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The issue of just savings between generations presents an important,and for the most part unappreciated, problem for Rawls's theory ofdistributive justice. This paper argues that the just savingsprinciple, as Rawls formulates it in his recent work, standsin tension with the difference principle. When thought through,the just savings principle – and more precisely the foundationon which it rests – give us reason to reject the differenceprinciple in favor of a less egalitarian principle ofdistributive justice.
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Wall, S. Just Savings and the Difference Principle. Philosophical Studies 116, 79–102 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:PHIL.0000005559.77848.5d
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:PHIL.0000005559.77848.5d