Desert and Justice [Hardcover]

Does justice require that individuals get what they deserve? Serena Olsaretti brings together new essays by leading moral and political philosophers examining the relation between desert and justice; they also illuminate the nature of distributive justice, and the relationship between desert and other values, such as equality and responsibility.

Introduction: debating desert and justice,Serena Olsaretti
1. Comparative and non-comparative desert,David Miller
2. Desert: individualistic and holistic,Thomas Hurka
3. Distributive justice and economic desert,Samuel Scheffler
4. Comparative desert,Shelley Kagan
5. On the comparative element of justice,Owen McLeod
6. Return to Twin Peaks: on the intrinsic moral significance of equality,Fred Feldman
7. Brute luck equality and desert,Peter Vallentyne
8. Distributive justice and compensatory desert,Serena Olsaretti
9. Effort and imagination,George Sher
10. The dilemma of desert,Jonathan Wolff
11. The Smart theory of moral responsibility and desert,Richard Arneson
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Index