Equality and Responsibility.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lake, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distribution (Economic theory).

Distributive justice.

Equality.

Responsibility.

Local Subjects:

Distribution (Economic theory).

Distributive justice.

Equality.

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-94405-X

9786611944056

0-19-152921-4

OCLC:

302358813