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December 07, 2007

Rawls on Robbins

Here's a taste of what David will talk about at the Robbins conference in London.  We've obtained a number of Rawls' copies of books by economists, including Rawls' copy of The Nature and Significance.  So we can see what struck Rawls as he read Robbins. Here, you can see Rawls' exclamation -- "splendid!" -- beside Robbins' discussion of interpersonal comparisons of utility:

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