Getting the Baseline Right—or—Why I’m Right and Everyone Else is Wrong, in each of the Two Senses of ‘Why’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9687151 |
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| Authors | PAUL VIMINITZ (University of Lethbridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 739-757 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217316000676 |
| OpenAlex | W2564925869 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
My fellow contractarians and I are of a mind that it would be irrational to comply with a distribution of the cooperative dividend that worsens one’s condition. But worse than what? According to David Gauthier et al. , it’s non-interaction, i.e., what would be the case were the negotiators never to have met. I argue that it’s what would be the case in the absence of their coming to an agreement. As it turns out, this distinction can be, and often is, a matter of life and death
Baseline (sea) · Dividend · Economics · Epistemology · Irrational number · Law and economics · Political science · Positive economics · Free Will and Agency · Law · Legal principles and applications · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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