Chance, merit, and economic inequality
Subtitle: rethinking distributive justice and the principle of desert
By: Joseph de la Torre Dwyer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Cham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9783030211264
Subjects: Distributive justice; Income distribution; Merit (Ethics); Justice distributive; Revenu; Répartition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Die is Cast: Chance, Merit, and Inequality; title: 3. Autonomy and Desert; title: 4. Equal Opportunity and Just Deserts: Better Late than Before; title: 5. Efficiency and Just Deserts: Economists' Big Trade-Off; title: 6. Liberty and Just Deserts: Slaves, Dynasties, and Moral Agents; title: 7. Economy and Desert; title: 8. Measure for Merit; title: 9. The Individual Moral Agent; title: 10. The Natural Lottery Alone; title: 11. Just Deserts; title: 12. Just Deserts Outcomes and Aggregate Analysis; title: 13. The Just Deserts Economy; title: 14. Conclusion.