Defenders of the free market argue that inequalities of income are "just" because they are deserved, and that they are what free individuals are entitled to. Far from supporting free market inequalities, this book argues that, when we examine the principle of "desert" and the notions of "liberty" and "choice" invoked by defenders of the free market, the conception of justice that would accommodate these notions calls for their elimination. The book will be of interest to readers in political philosophy, political theory, and normative economics.
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Defenders of the free market argue that inequalities of income are just because they are deserved, and that they are what free individuals are entitled to. This book argues that when we examine the principle of desert and the notions of liberty and choice invoked by defenders of the free market, it appears that a conception of justice that would accommodate these notions, far from supporting free market inequalities, calls for their elimination. The book will be of interest to readers in political philosophy, political theory, and normative economics.
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Serena Olsaretti is Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She is the editor of Desert and Justice (2003) and has also published in The Journal of Political Philosophy and Utilitas.
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The idea that people deserve to be paid for the work they do is a familiar one in common thinking about justice, and finds support in various arguments put forward by political philosophers who endorse desert. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
compensatory desert, integral luck, moralised definition, fair opportunity requirement, vitiated voluntariness, specific voluntary undertakings, positive desert claims, free market satisfies, libertarian defence, full private property rights, par with forced labour, circumstantial luck, unequal deserts, institutional desert, free market inequalities, voluntariness requirement, desert argument, desert theorists, free market rewards, differential deserts, two acceptable options, supermarket assistant, active desert, desert basis, libertarian justification Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Clarendon Press, Scott Arnold, Giving Desert, Princeton University Press, New York, Cambridge University Press, David Miller, Reading Nozick, Wilt Chamberlain, Disadvantaged Workers, Jan Narveson, Robert Nozick, Sovereign Virtue, Thomas Scanlon, Anarchy State, Fraud Standard, George Sher, Hillel Steiner, John Roemer, Libertarianism Without Inequality New!
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The idea that people deserve to be paid for the work they do is a familiar one in common thinking about justice, and finds support in various arguments put forward by political philosophers who endorse desert. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
compensatory desert, integral luck, moralised definition, fair opportunity requirement, vitiated voluntariness, specific voluntary undertakings, positive desert claims, free market satisfies, libertarian defence, full private property rights, par with forced labour, circumstantial luck, unequal deserts, institutional desert, free market inequalities, voluntariness requirement, desert argument, desert theorists, free market rewards, differential deserts, two acceptable options, supermarket assistant, active desert, desert basis, libertarian justification Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Clarendon Press, Scott Arnold, Giving Desert, Princeton University Press, New York, Cambridge University Press, David Miller, Reading Nozick, Wilt Chamberlain, Disadvantaged Workers, Jan Narveson, Robert Nozick, Sovereign Virtue, Thomas Scanlon, Anarchy State, Fraud Standard, George Sher, Hillel Steiner, John Roemer, Libertarianism Without Inequality New!
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- Social Justice by David Miller on 16 pages
- An Essay on Rights by Hillel Steiner on 13 pages
- Desert and Justice (Mind Association Occasional) by Serena Olsaretti on 12 pages
- Reading Nozick: Essays on "Anarchy, State and Utopia" (Philosophy & Society) by Jeffrey Paul on 11 pages
- Markets and Justice: Nomos XXXI by John W. Chapman on 9 pages
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