Justice and the meritocratic state / / Thomas Mulligan.
Like American politics, the academic debate over justice is polarized, with almost all theories of justice falling 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...
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| Superior document: | Political philosophy for the real world ; 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Routledge,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Political philosophy for the real world ;
2 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- On justice
- Meritocracy : the basics
- The metatheory of justice
- What we think about justice and why it matters
- A meritocratic theory of economic justice
- The foundation of meritocracy
- On the distribution of jobs
- On the distribution of income
- Defending desert from John Rawls
- Meritocratic public policy
- Meritocratic taxation
- Meritocratic social programs, and final matters.