Source: Law & Liberty
by James R Rogers
“Despite being popularly positioned as leading advocates of opposing political philosophies, the signature works of public choice founder James Buchanan (with co-founder Gordon Tullock) and philosopher John Rawls share the same foundational approach. While Buchanan became more critical of Rawls’s work when A Theory of Justice finally appeared in 1971, his criticisms are more tempered than many readers would expect. Buchanan also admitted that his criticism of Rawls likewise indicted the approach that he and Tullock developed a decade earlier in The Calculus of Consent. …they are commonly conceived as occupying opposite and rival positions on the political spectrum. Yet throughout the 1960s, after publication of The Calculus of Consent, Buchanan and Rawls communicated frequently and warmly with each other, drawn together intellectually by commonalities in their work.” (02/04/26)
https://lawliberty.org/frenemies-behind-the-veil-of-ignorance/