Just Deserts
Economic justice is giving to each exactly what they deserve.
The principle of desert is the most intuitive principle of distribution for the vast majority of people.1 Thus, it is critical that we know exactly what each of us deserves.
The answer is that we each deserve a responsibility-sensitive allocation of benefits and burdens where inequalities between individuals are unjustified when dependent upon factors for which individuals are not responsible.
This project aims to identify those factors, describe the responsibility-sensitive distribution, and advocate for its realization through public policy.
Just Deserts
Economic justice is giving to each exactly what they deserve.
Posts
Life Expectancy: A New Wrinkle for Equal Opportunity Policy
Are differences in life expectancy something we ought to account for in equal opportunity policies? Although this is not often …
Publications
Chance, Merit, and Economic Inequality: Rethinking Distributive Justice and the Principle of Desert
This book develops a novel approach to distributive justice by building a theory based on a concept of desert. As a work of applied …
