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Neoliberalism versus distributional autonomy: the skipped step in rawls’s the law of peoples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

William A. Edmundson Open the ORCID record for William A. Edmundson [Opens in a new window]  and
Matthew R. Schrepfer
William A. Edmundson
Affiliation:
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Matthew R. Schrepfer
Affiliation:
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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Abstract

Debates about global distributive justice focus on the gulf between the wealthy North and the impoverished South, rather than on issues arising between liberal democracies. A review of John Rawls’s approach to international justice discloses a step Rawls skipped in his extension of his original-position procedure. The skipped step is where a need for the distributional autonomy of sovereign liberal states reveals itself. Neoliberalism denies the possibility and the desirability of distributional autonomy. A complete Rawlsian account of global justice shows the necessity and possibility of a charter between liberal states, assuring each a proper minimum degree of distributional autonomy

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Neoliberalismglobalismdistributive justicedistributional autonomyinternational justiceRawlslaw of peoples
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , March 2019 , pp. 169 - 181
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Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2018

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