Justice and the Meritocratic State

ISBN-13: 9780367372286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 226 str.

Thomas Mulligan

Opis

Like American politics, almost all academic theories of justice fall within one of two traditions: egalitarianism and libertarianism. This book provides an alternative to the partisan standoff by focusing not on equality or liberty, but on the idea that we should give people the things that they deserve.

Spis treści

Part I: On Justice  1. Why Meritocracy?  2. The Metatheory of Justice  3. What We Believe about Justice  4. The Concept of Desert  Part II: A Meritocratic Theory of Economic Justice  5. On the Distribution of Income  6. On the Distribution of Jobs  7. Defending Desert from the Left and the Right  Part III: Meritocratic Public Policy  8. Public Spending and the Establishment of Equal Opportunity  9. Meritocratic Tax Theory  10. Justice in Our Lifetimes

O autorze

Thomas Mulligan is a Junior Faculty Fellow at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics. Before coming to academia, he served in the U.S. Navy and the Central Intelligence Agency.