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1、Incentives,Inequality,andPublicityAuthor(s):AndrewWilliamsReviewedwork(s):Source:Philosophy&PublicAffairs,Vol.27,No.3(Summer,1998),pp.225-247Publishedby:Wiley-BlackwellStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2672870.Accessed:12/11/201209:12YouruseoftheJST
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5、alitarianismoftenclaimthatthepursuitofeconomicequal-itymustbetemperedbecauseitscrushingeffectonincentivesjeopard-izesefficiency.ThemostchallengingversionoftheirargumentappealstoJohnRawls'sdifferenceprinciple,accordingtowhichdeparturesfromequalityarejust
6、ifnecessarytobenefittheleastadvantagedmaxi-mally.'ThispaperexaminesthelateststageinG.A.Cohen'scampaignagainsttheRawlsiandefenseofinequality-generatingincentives.2Itar-IamgratefultomyhostsatYale'sEthics,PoliticsandEconomicsProgram,andtoaudi-encesattheNuf
7、fieldPoliticalTheoryGroup,VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity,andtheYalePoliticalTheoryWorkshop.Formanyhelpfulsuggestions,IamindebtedtotheEdi-torsofPhilosophy&PublicAffairs,andtoT.Christiano,M.G.Clayton,J.Knijff,J.Lamont,A.Mason,S.Olsaretti,M.Otsuka,A.Swift,
8、PVallentyne,F.Vandenbrouke,R.vanderVeen,PVanParijs,T.M.Wilkinson,A.W.Wood,and,especially,PCasalandG.A.Cohen.1.SeeJ.Rawls,ATheoryofJustice(Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress,1971),p.83,forastatementofthedifferenceprinciple,andpp.151