Just Deserts

Economic justice is giving to each exactly what they deserve.

An online portal to resources and writings on economic justice theories, policies, and analyses where the specific focus is the principle of desert, equality of opportunity, or luck.

Read the book JustDeserts.org is also a companion to Chance, Merit, and Economic Inequality

I want to insist on this point: the key issue is the justification of inequalities rather than their magnitude as such. —Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014), 264

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Economic justice is giving to each exactly what they deserve.

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