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| Justice and Economic Systems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vast Disparities of Wealth | |
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| Are Disparities Defensible? | |
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| The Problem of Just Wages | |
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| Justice and Political Legitimacy | |
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| What's Ahead | |
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| Three Views | |
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| Capitalism | |
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| Private Ownership of Property | |
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| The Market System of Production and Distribution | |
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| To Each, According to . . . Socialism | |
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| Public Ownership of Property | |
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| A Planned Economy | |
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| To Each, According to . . . The Welfare State | |
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| Ownership of Property | |
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| A Market Distribution with Supplements | |
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| To Each, According to . . . Summing Up | |
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| The Case for Libertarian Capitalism | |
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| Productivity and Well-being | |
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| The Utilitarian Argument | |
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| Rewards for the Deserving | |
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| Liberty and Justice: The Entitlement Theory | |
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| The Case Against Government Intervention | |
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| The Overall Argument | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Socialism and the Critique of Capitalism | |
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| Does Capitalism Maximize Human Well-Being? | |
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| The Distribution of Wealth | |
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| Does Capitalism Reward the Deserving? | |
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| Socialism and Desert | |
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| Capitalism, Socialism, and Individual Liberty | |
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| How Liberty Upsets Liberty | |
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| The Case for Socialism | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Assessing Capitalism and Socialism | |
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| Promoting Well-Being | |
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| Assessing Capitalism and Socialism | |
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| The Utilitarian Argument | |
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| The Capitalist Reply to the Marginal Utility Argument | |
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| Are There Other Motivations? | |
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| Back to the Present | |
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| The Welfare State Solution | |
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| Playing It By Ear | |
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| The Limits on Utilitarian Arguments | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Rewarding the Deserving | |
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| How Do We Tell What People Deserve? Moral Desert | |
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| Supply and Demand | |
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| Inherited Advantages | |
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| Moral Desert as a Patterned Conception of Justice | |
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| Socialism and Desert | |
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| The Rejection of the Personal Desert Criterion | |
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| Does Socialism Give People What They Deserve? | |
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| The Welfare State Solution | |
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| Is the Personal Desert Criterion Adequate? | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Protecting Liberty | |
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| Capitalist versus Socialist Freedom | |
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| Socialism as a Threat to Freedom | |
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| The Welfare State Solution | |
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| Nozick's Challenge to the Welfare State | |
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| Does Liberty Upset Patterns? | |
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| Is Taxation on a Par with Forced Labor? | |
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| Where Do We Stand? | |
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| The Welfare State | |
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| Rawl's Defense of the Liberal Democratic Welfare State | |
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| Rawl's Method | |
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| The Original Position | |
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| The Veil of Ignorance | |
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| The Two Principles of Justice | |
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| The Difference Principle | |
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| Defending the Difference Principle | |
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| A Second Rawlsian Argument | |
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| Fair Equality of Opportunity | |
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| Implications for the Welfare State | |
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| Evaluating Rawlsian Justice | |
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| The Social Contract Method | |
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| The Difference Principle and Economic Justice | |
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| Some Morals of the Story | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| What Should Welfare States Provide? | |
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| How Much "Welfare?" The Emergency Relief State | |
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| Limitations of the Emergency Relief State | |
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| The Comprehensive Welfare State | |
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| Isn't This Socialism? In Defense of the Comprehensive Welfare State | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| The Comprehensive Welfare State: Objections and Replies | |
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| Libertarianism and the Function of Government | |
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| Encouraging Dependency | |
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| Incentive, Again | |
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| Do Nonworkers Deserve Resources? | |
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| Is Equal Opportunity Enough? | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| The Bottom Line | |
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| Vast Disparities | |
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| The Problem of Just Wages | |
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| Justice and Political Legitimacy | |
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| Utopian? Unrealistic? | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Index | |