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REPLY TO PUTNAM AND WALSH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2007

PARTHA DASGUPTA
PARTHA DASGUPTA*
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Social thinkers frequently remind us that people differ on what constitutes personal well-being, but that even when they don't differ, they disagree over the extent to which one person's well-being can be permitted to be traded off against another's. They tell us that political differences are to be traced to differences in people's conceptions of personal and social well-being. We are given to understand, in other words, that people's ethics differ.

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , November 2007 , pp. 365 - 372
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