MORAL PUBLIC CHOICE

Public Choice should now integrate systematically considerations of et hics and justice for two kinds of reasons. First, moral principles can be implemented by self-centered individual who, however, care for oth ers' judgments, and these others can thus have these principles implem ented at no cost to themselves. Furthermore, direct moral motivations may be less negligible than it was assumed, and at any rate it may be time to focus on them. Second, the theory of justice has reached an in tegrated, rational maturity which makes it suitable for this purpose ( whereas the ''Social Choice'' approach is plagued by serious problems of meaning).