ABSTRACT
This chapter defends some concrete institutional arrangements. The range of institutions to be considered is limited to those that establish the basic structure of a political economy. Utilitarian utopias are those worlds in which all or almost all agents are practicing utilitarians. A high-v world is one in which the absence of much noise and error in enforcing rules means that near-ideal solutions to the problem of equilibrium selection are possible. A simple-minded act-utilitarian would recognize the general obligation to seek permission to dispose of ownable selves. In the theories of justice advanced by Nozick and Gauthier, some initial state of distribution that arises out of a state of nature is justified; any subsequent distribution that arises out of the initial distribution through morally legitimate exchanges is assumed to be just. Suppose that in the name of distributive justice, certain policies had caused cultural growth to stop or stagnate. Imagine all the things that humanity would lack.
