Like American politics, the academic debate over justice is polarized, with almost all theories of justice falling within one of two traditions: egalitarianism

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Like American politics, the academic debate over justice is polarized, with almost all theories of justice falling within one of two traditions: egalitarianism

This book develops a novel approach to distributive justice by building a theory based on a concept of desert. As a work of applied political theory, it present

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