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In summary, it is like this. The good society must be built up from the revealed preferences of unique individuals who feel a need to register their choices. God has been dead for a century. Truth is tested by agreement. Efficiency is tested by agreement. Justice is consensus. Fairness is the rational calculus of the loss-averting one-off when situated behind a thick veil of fog.
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Reisman, D. (2015). Introduction. In: James Buchanan. Great Thinkers in Economics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137427182_1
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