Equality and Responsibility [electronic resource].
Lake, Christopher.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2001.
Arguments about distributive justice often take place around two ideas. One is that good should be distributed equally. The other is that how people fare in life should depend on what they are responsible for. The author asks what draws us to these two ideas and examines recent attempts by egalitarian thinkers to bring them together in a single distributive ideal. Underlying this ideal is the egalitarian intuition - the intuition that it is objectionable for some to be worse offthan others through no fault of their own. in a wide-ranging discussion, Lake tests that intuition from a variety of 
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Preface; Contents; Introduction; 1. What is objectionable about inequalities?; 2. Responsibility and justice; 3. What we are responsible for; 4. The social division of responsibility; 5. The egalitarian intuition; 6. Natural talents, luck, and the market; 7. Why work?; Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index
Arguments about distributive justice often take place around two ideas. One is that good should be distributed equally. The other is that how people fare in life should depend on what they are responsible for. The author asks what draws us to these two ideas and examines recent attempts by egalitarian thinkers to bring them together in a single distributive ideal. Underlying this ideal is the egalitarian intuition - the intuition that it is objectionable for some to be worse offthan others through no fault of their own. in a wide-ranging discussion, Lake tests that intuition from a variety of 
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Distribution (Economic theory).
Distributive justice.
Equality.
Responsibility.