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Howard, M. and Tibballs,S. 2003 .Talking Equality: What Men and Women Think About Equality in Britain Today. London: Future Foun ...

Young,I.M. 1990 .Justice and the Politics of DiVerence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. —— 1997. Unruly categories: a ...

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In addition to these general assumptions, Nozick advanced some more speciWc claims about how best toXesh out an entitlement theo ...

although Nozick’s work on distributive justice is often memorably ingenious, and did much to renew political theorists’ interest ...

principle of justice in transfer’’ (Nozick 1974 , 179 ) that limits owners’ powers to dispose of their holdings, and the same pr ...

It is a virtue of the book that it forces us to consider economic institutions not merely as mechanisms for the distribution of ...

versus rights that permit others to take an equal share of the product. It will not suYce to resolve these additional disputes m ...

economists term the ‘‘envy test’’ (Dworkin 2000 , 67 ). 3 Thus, they should ensure that nobody prefers anyone else’s resources, ...

markets—are fairly situated because equally endowed and aware only of the overall distribution of brute luck rather than their p ...

approach diVers signiWcantly from that favored by Rawls (Williams 2004 , 131 – 3 ). On the former view, what qualiWes as misfort ...

implementing those principles involves unjustiWably denying our decision-making powers, or forcing us to share the costs of othe ...

Similarly, both Arneson and G. A. Cohen have suggested that the appro- priate genesis can render even an extremely unequal outco ...

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that it is defensible to force some individuals to bear the costs of others’ decisions if doing so is necessary to avoid absolut ...

Anderson, for example, does remark that luck egalitarians ‘‘have been most responsive to criticisms of equality based on ideals ...

Pursuing G. A. Cohen’s suggestion that ‘‘Dworkin has, in eVect, performed for egalitarianism the considerable service of incorpo ...

—— 2004. Expensive taste rides again. Pp. 3 – 29 inDworkin and His Critics, ed. J. Burley. Oxford: Blackwell. Dworkin,R. 1981 a. ...