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Are inequalities of income created by the free market just? In this book Serena Olsaretti examines two main arguments that justify those inequalities: the first claims that they are just because they are deserved, and the second claims that they are just because they are what free individuals are entitled to. Both these arguments purport to show, in different ways, that giving responsible individuals their due requires that free market inequalities in incomes be allowed. Olsaretti argues, however, that neither argument is successful, and shows that when we examine closely 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. Her book will be of interest to a wide range of 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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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 Series) by Serena Olsaretti on 12 pages
- Reading Nozick: Essays on "Anarchy, State and Utopia" (Philosophy and Society) by Jeffrey Paul on 11 pages
- Markets and Justice: Nomos XXXI by John Chapman on 9 pages
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