In justice as fairness society is interpreted as a cooperative venture for mutual advantage. - John Rawls

A conception of justice cannot be deduced from self evident premises or conditions on principles; instead, its justification is a matter of the mutual support of many considerations, of everything fitted together into one coherent view.

Social and economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions: first, they are to be attached to positions and offices open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity; and second, they are to be to the greatest benefit to the least-advantaged members of society.

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.