Chance, Merit, and Economic Inequality Rethinking Distributive Justi
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 presents a simple but powerful theoretical argument and a detailed proposal to eliminate unmerited ine
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Chance, Merit, and Economic Inequality
Joseph de la Torre Dwyer
Chance, Merit, and Economic Inequality Rethinking Distributive Justice and the Principle of Desert
Joseph de la Torre Dwyer Independent Scholar Brooklyn, NY, USA
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For the Unlucky
PREFACE
Sections of this book that begin with “***” may be skipped but will be of interest to specialists.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book has greatly benefited from the efforts of many individuals. I would like to thank the participants in the 85th Southern Economics Association Annual Meeting who responded helpfully to early versions of Chaps. 2 and 13, the Book Club that allowed me to foist upon them an early version of Chap. 1 and still provided valuable suggestions and encouragement, the Interlibrary Loan staff at the Brooklyn Public Library who aided me in obtaining many important source materials, Sam Smit’s assistance in a time of need, the anonymous referees who seriously engaged with my work to help me better see the project’s strengths and weaknesses and radically improve its substance, Ben Pauli and Albert Castle for providing careful reading and illuminating feedback, Papa for reading the entire draft and offering some sharp questions, and My Love for generously supporting me through this entire process, reading numerous versions of every fledgling and final chapter, and helping me to ever better refine the text in terms of clarity and conte
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