Equality and Responsibility

by Lake, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780199241743
• ISBN10: 0199241740
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

How should goods be distributed in our society? Some say equally, others say according to what people are responsible for. Both ideas seem plausible but neither tell the whole story. The author examines what draws us to these two ideas and looks at recent attempts by egalitarian thinkers to bring them together in a single distributive ideal.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction	1	(5)
What is objectionable about inequalities?	6	(16)
Responsibility and Justice	22	(21)
What we are responsible for	43	(23)
The social division of responsibility	66	(17)
The egalitarian intuition	83	(23)
Natural talents, luck, and the market	106	(22)
Why work?	128	(20)
Conclusion	148	(5)
Endnotes	153	(11)
Bibliography	164	(3)
Index	167