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In a short article written in 1964 in celebration of the sixtieth birthday of Professor A.P. Lerner, Paul Samuelson criticized the notion of the ‘veil of ignorance’ used in the Economics of Control.2 Lerner (1944) advanced such concept to derive the strong proposition according to which in society
“the ... probable value of total satisfactions is maximized by dividing income evenly.”
I would like to thank the comments on an earlier version received from Vasco Santos, Mario Pascoa, Paulo Barcia, Duarte Brito and Pedro P. Banos.
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Barbosa, A.S.P. (2002). The Constitutional Stage Revisited. In: Brennan, G., Kliemt, H., Tollison, R.D. (eds) Method and Morals in Constitutional Economics. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04810-8_13
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