Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Fordham Law Review

Abstract

Anne Alstott and Robert Cooter both address a question that is at the center of Rawls's concerns about moral and social theory - a topic that also arose prominently in the earlier panels on Gender and on Tort - the division between private and public responsibility in the design of a just social order. They raise the question in two different domains - child or dependent care and economic redistribution-and their responses tend in opposite directions. Alstott favors an increase in public responsibility for what is nevertheless an aspect of private life, while Cooter favors an increase of personal responsibility for what Rawls thinks of as a demand on the design of economic institutions.

First Page

2015

Volume

72

Publication Date

2004

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