"Rawlsian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2023, Edmund Phelps, My Journeys in Economic Theory, Columbia University Press, page 81:",
          "text": "After my first paper on Rawlsian justice—modeling what that justice would look like in an extremely simple kind of economy—a large part of my work took up for some time questions about a Rawlsian economy with capital, overlapping generations, and some principle for determining the national saving.",
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