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| 18639 | If we assess what people would buy in an imaginary insurance market, our taxes could copy it |
| Full Idea: If we can make sense of a hypothetical insurance market, and find a determinate answer to the question of what insurance people would buy in it, then we could use the tax system to duplicate the results. | |||
| From: report of Ronald Dworkin (A Matter of Principle [1985]) by Will Kymlicka - Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn) 2.4.b | |||
| A reaction: This is a nice alternative from Dworkin to Rawls's 'veil of ignorance' approach. |