>By the way, one of my econo-trained-monkey-MBA dear close friends
>sent me a response that Rawls sounded to him like "Pareto
>optimality" (whatever the hell that is -- I've heard it used).
Pareto optimality is the condition in which no member of a society can be made better off without making someone else worse off.
Pareto himself was quite an elitist and often is taken as something of a fascist.
Doug