Yesterday, I wrote about Mark Blaug's influence on Rawls' Theory of Justice. Now, the creative economist, David Levy (who like Mark Blaug was a PhD student of George Stigler), collects Rawls' political economy holdings, and he has been kind enough to share a few images. These include marginalia by Rawls. Here's p. 203 of Rawls' copy of Blaug's Economic Theory in Retrospect:
Now Rawls is one of the great historians of utilitarianism, and he knew the suggested readings quite well already. (How many philosophers today know what Rawls knew of the history of utilitarianism as an integral tradition?) But it is striking that when it comes to justice, Rawls found quite a bit worth remembering in Blaug's book:
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