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Rawlsian Investment Rules for "Intergenerational Equity" Breaches of Method and Ethics

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Tags Financial MarketsCapital and Interest TheoryValue and Exchange

07/30/2014John Brätland

Harvard professor of philosophy, John Rawls, can be credited with provoking the most recent angst over the issue of intergenerational equity. Rawls views intergenerational equity as a policy issue necessitating governmental intervention to manage “social saving and investment” for the benefit of the least advantaged generation.

Volume 21, Number 4 (2007)

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Brätland, John. "Rawlsian Investment Rules for "Intergenerational Equity": Breaches of Method and Ethics." Journal of Libertarian Studies 21, No. 4 (2007): 69–100.