Abstract
Policies that impose extra burdens on the least well off members of a society are contrary to the requirements of justice, as most of us understand them. Rawls’ theory of justice (Rawls 1972), which is supposed to be based on our ideas of fairness, insists that inequalities can only be justified if they provide maximum benefits to the least well off, and even rival conceptions of justice that are less egalitarian would rule out measures that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the poor or that disadvantage the least well off in a disproportionate way.1
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Thompson, J. (1995). Sustainability, Justice and Market Relations. In: Eckersley, R. (eds) Markets, the State and the Environment. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14022-0_12
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