The primary-goods indexation problem in
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Douglas H. Blair
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Article
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1988
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Springer US
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English
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Rawls's Difference Principle holds that basic social institutions are just if they maximize the worst-off individual's potential welfare, which depends on the vector of amounts of"primary goods." As Rawls recognized, the multiplicity of primary goods poses an index number problem. This paper uses th